A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.1038 West, latitude 19.2631 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000jdh2. Event ids that are associated: pt19036050, us2000jdh2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 04:07:25 / February 5, 2019 @ 4:07 am. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:07:25 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otra Banda, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 81 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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