A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -67.2315° West, 19.1271° North, depth 6 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: pr2019267002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19267003, us60005mjj, pr2019267002. The temblor was picked up at 23:51:09 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 03:51:09 / September 24, 2019 @ 3:51 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Añasco, San Sebastián, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. 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: 65 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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