A minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/03/21 / 2021-03-15 12:41:02 / March 15, 2021 @ 12:41 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 79 km (49 miles). Unique identifier: pr2021074005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2021074005. The temblor was detected at 12:41:02 / 12:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.0716 West, latitude 18.5521 North, depth = 79 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Alta, Villalba, Ponce. The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). 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 two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NNE of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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