A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 07:48:17 / September 24, 2019 @ 7:48 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005mmp. Id of event: us60005mmp. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2073 West, latitude 18.8935 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:48:17 / 3:48 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mayagüez, Lares, Las Marías. Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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: 45 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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