A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/04/19 / 2019-04-11 19:31:37 / April 11, 2019 @ 7:31 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2019101009. Event ids that are associated: pt19101001, pr2019101009, us700034ks. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7958 West, latitude 19.1055 North, depth = 37 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37 km (23 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:31:37 / 3:31 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manatí, Barceloneta, Quebradillas. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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