A minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -67.7406° West, latitude 18.9431° North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/06/20 / 2020-06-11 00:28:32 / June 11, 2020 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020163002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020163002. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:28:32 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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