A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30 km (19 miles). Exact location of event, depth 30 km, -67.3126° West, 19.0915° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019268077. Unique identifier: pr2019268077. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:04:46 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 21:04:46 / September 25, 2019 @ 9:04 pm.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). 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 Aguadilla, Isabela.
Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 70 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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