A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 07:41:52 / September 24, 2019 @ 7:41 am UTC/GMT. The 2.95-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:41:52 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019267110. Id of event: pr2019267110. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.346 West, latitude 19.0508 North, depth = 70 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quebradillas, Moca, Aguada. Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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