A minor earthquake magnitude 3.76 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Event id: pr2019036000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019036000. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 02:01:54 / February 5, 2019 @ 2:01 am. Exact location of event, longitude -68.0336 West, latitude 19.2755 North, depth = 97 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 97 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 21:01:54 / 9:01 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (54 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 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 four, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days seventy-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 86 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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