A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019307009. Unique identifier: pr2019307009. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -67.1628 West, latitude 19.0041 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.12-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:30:58 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/11/19 / 2019-11-03 12:30:58 / November 3, 2019 @ 12:30 pm.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, San Sebastián, Arecibo. Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 57 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.
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