A minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020187060. Id of event: pr2020187060. Exact location of event, longitude -67.3176 West, latitude 19.169 North, depth = 37 km. The temblor was detected at 23:41:52 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/20 / 2020-07-05 23:41:52 / July 5, 2020 @ 11:41 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 78 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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