A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Unique identifier: pr2019143004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019143004. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:30:10 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/05/19 / 2019-05-23 14:30:10 / May 23, 2019 @ 2:30 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -68.1858 West, latitude 18.9525 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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