A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Id of earthquake: pr2019183003. Event ids that are associated: pr2019183003. The epicenter was at a depth of 128 km (80 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -68.2345° West, 18.4771° North, depth 128 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:34:46 / 3:34 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/07/19 / 2019-07-02 07:34:46 / July 2, 2019 @ 7:34 am.
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, San Rafael del Yuma (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 21 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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