A minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/01/20 / 2020-01-01 08:47:29 / January 1, 2020 @ 8:47 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2020001130. Event ids that are associated: pr2020001130. Exact location of event, depth 28 km, -68.0716° West, 19.1848° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28 km (17 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:47:29 / 3:47 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days seventy-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and eight and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 75 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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