A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: us6000agug. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000agug. The temblor was detected at 22:55:37 / 10:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.6385 West, latitude 18.8669 North, depth = 22.62 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.62 km (14 miles). Global time and date of event 22/06/20 / 2020-06-22 22:55:37 / June 22, 2020 @ 10:55 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Añasco, Isabela, Moca. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 70 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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