A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 07:48:17 / September 24, 2019 @ 7:48 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Event id: pr2019267025. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005mmp, pr2019267025. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2906 West, latitude 19.1345 North, depth = 7 km. The temblor was detected at 03:48:17 / 3:48 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguadilla, Isabela. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 45 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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