A minor earthquake magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 17:24:37 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/04/20 / 2020-04-28 22:24:37 / April 28, 2020 @ 10:24 pm. Unique identifier: pr2020119026. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020119026, us60009ebt. Exact location of event, longitude -67.9465 West, latitude 18.9776 North, depth = 13 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles).
The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana. 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days one thousand and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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