A minor earthquake magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 13:16:03 / September 25, 2019 @ 1:16 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -67.3596 West, latitude 19.102 North, depth = 30 km. The 3.01-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:16:03 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019268050. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019268050.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguadilla, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and ten, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventeen 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.
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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: 72 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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