A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The temblor was picked up at 07:58:03 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019227006. Unique identifier: pr2019227006. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 141 km (88 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 15/08/19 / 2019-08-15 11:58:03 / August 15, 2019 @ 11:58 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -68.1686° West, 18.4988° North, depth 141 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Otra Banda (c. 6 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from San Rafael del Yuma (c. 5 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salvaleón de Higüey, Otra Banda, San Rafael del Yuma.
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km ESE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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