A minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/11/19 / 2019-11-01 12:09:55 / November 1, 2019 @ 12:09 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2019305003. Event ids that are associated: pr2019305003. The 3.02-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:09:55 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -67.1466 West, latitude 18.974 North, depth = 36 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, San Sebastián, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Nearby 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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