A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.134 West, latitude 18.48 North, depth = 131 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near San Juan in Puerto Rico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:24:25 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/10/16 / 2016-10-14 01:24:25 / October 14, 2016 @ 1:24 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 131 km (81 miles). Unique identifier: at00of0jwp. Ids that are associated to the event: at00of0jwp.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 3 km (2 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yauco, Culebra, Guayanilla.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km WNW of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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