A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 05:09:32 / September 24, 2019 @ 5:09 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 19 km, -67.2273° West, 19.0805° North. Unique identifier: pr2019267008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019267008, us60005mkl. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:09:32 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moca, Quebradillas, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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