A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.64 (ml/mb) was reported 78 kilometers (48 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 20:19:25 / September 24, 2019 @ 8:19 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 16:19:25 / 4:19 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019267060. Unique identifier: pr2019267060. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.3° West, latitude 19.1721° North, depth = 35 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Isabela. Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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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: 78 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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