A minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Global time and date of event 10/03/19 / 2019-03-10 21:07:41 / March 10, 2019 @ 9:07 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53 km (33 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:07:41 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -68.3895° West, latitude 18.4253° North, depth = 53 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019069012. Unique identifier: pr2019069012.
Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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