A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34 km (21 miles). Unique identifier: pr2019325029. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019325029. The temblor was picked up at 19:32:10 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/19 / 2019-11-21 23:32:10 / November 21, 2019 @ 11:32 pm. Exact location, longitude -65.8° West, latitude 19.0153° North, depth = 34 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fajardo, Bayamón, Ingenio (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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