A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 11:12:35 / September 24, 2019 @ 11:12 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -67.1271° West, latitude 19.048° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us60005mqv. Ids that are associated to the event: us60005mqv. The temblor was detected at 07:12:35 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Rincón, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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