A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15343001. Unique identifier: pr15343001. Exact location of event, longitude -67.5672 West, latitude 19.0212 North, depth = 50 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 00:28:11 / December 9, 2015 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 19:28:11 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 76 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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