A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:43:57 / 11:43 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019037005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019037005. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/02/19 / 2019-02-06 04:43:57 / February 6, 2019 @ 4:43 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 95 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -68.1931 West, latitude 19.2913 North, depth = 95 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearby 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days sixty-nine, in the past 30 days ninety-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 81 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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