A minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019267065. Unique identifier: pr2019267065. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23 km (14 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.465° West, 19.1378° North, depth 23 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 22:03:43 / September 24, 2019 @ 10:03 pm. The temblor was picked up at 18:03:43 / 6:03 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Campanilla, Camuy, Levittown (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. 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: 74 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.
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