A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019066010. Unique identifier: pr2019066010. Global time and date of event 07/03/19 / 2019-03-07 20:17:20 / March 7, 2019 @ 8:17 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 15:17:20 / 3:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.1535° West, latitude 18.969° North, depth = 113 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 113 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 50 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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