A minor earthquake magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 29/09/20 / 2020-09-29 03:59:16 / September 29, 2020 @ 3:59 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -67.2945° West, latitude 19.1735° North, depth = 44 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c2e5, pr2020273004. Id of event: pr2020273004. The 3.51-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:59:16 / 3:59 am (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 78 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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