A minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. Exact location of event, longitude -68.416 West, latitude 18.443 North, depth = 133 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018207012. Id of event: pr2018207012. The temblor was reported at 10:30:58 / 10:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 133 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/07/18 / 2018-07-26 14:30:58 / July 26, 2018 @ 2:30 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Guaymate, La Romana (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from La Romana (c. 208 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Salvaleón de Higüey (c. 123 800 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Santa Cruz de El Seibo (c. 23 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Guaymate (c. 6 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days three hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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