A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 76 kilometers (47 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Event id: us60007ina. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007ina. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 00:43:01 / January 29, 2020 @ 12:43 am. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:43:01 / 7:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.5997 West, latitude 18.9973 North, depth = 10 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 76 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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