A minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from San Sebastian in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 16/10/17 / 2017-10-16 20:29:15 / October 16, 2017 @ 8:29 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2017289000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017289000. Exact location of event, depth 19 km, -66.9985° West, 18.3313° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 16:29:15 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Campanilla, Aibonito, Naranjito. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 1 km SW of San Sebastian, Puerto Rico.
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