A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/03/16 / 2016-03-23 11:20:25 / March 23, 2016 @ 11:20 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.0938 West, latitude 18.8803 North, depth = 26 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16083001. Unique identifier: pr16083001. The epicenter was at a depth of 26 km (16 miles). The temblor was reported at 07:20:25 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naguabo, Ceiba, Las Piedras.
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 45 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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