A minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019267017. Id of event: pr2019267017. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 05:44:04 / September 24, 2019 @ 5:44 am. Exact location of event, depth 44 km, -67.0468° West, 18.9466° North. The 3.05-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:44:04 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Marías, Barceloneta, Lares. Earthquake epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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