A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -67.3138° West, latitude 19.128° North, depth = 7 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/04/20 / 2020-04-30 21:10:07 / April 30, 2020 @ 9:10 pm. Event id: pr2020121022. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020121022. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:10:07 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Isabela. Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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