A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 02:22:40 / January 30, 2020 @ 2:22 am UTC/GMT. The 3.36-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:22:40 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -67.8031° West, latitude 18.9901° North, depth = 31 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020030029. Event ids that are associated: pr2020030029.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana. Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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