A minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 02:56:54 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.798 West, latitude 19.0741 North, depth = 23 km. Unique identifier: pr2019329003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019329003. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/19 / 2019-11-25 06:56:54 / November 25, 2019 @ 6:56 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Carolina, Luquillo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 71 km N of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
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