A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 133 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (83 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -65.4086 West, latitude 19.5653 North, depth = 34 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/19 / 2019-07-03 08:38:48 / July 3, 2019 @ 8:38 am. The temblor was detected at 04:38:48 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019184003. Unique identifier: pr2019184003.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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