A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, depth 75 km, -68.1783° West, 19.2733° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 75 km (47 miles). Unique identifier: pr2019036021. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019036021. The temblor was detected at 04:07:15 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 09:07:15 / February 5, 2019 @ 9:07 am UTC/GMT.
Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days eighty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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