A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Punta Cana in Dominican Republic. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 63 km (39 miles). Event id: pr2019315001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019315001. Exact location of event, longitude -67.9456 West, latitude 19.1553 North, depth = 63 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/11/19 / 2019-11-11 06:02:47 / November 11, 2019 @ 6:02 am. The temblor was detected at 01:02:47 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana.
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 79 km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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