A minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) strikes 86 km N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (53 miles) on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019036005. Unique identifier: pr2019036005. The temblor was reported at 20:54:55 / 8:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.3273° West, 19.3631° North, depth 30 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 01:54:55 / February 5, 2019 @ 1:54 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface.
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 ten, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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 N of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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