A minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 21:23:40 / 9:23 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr71464078. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71464078. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/24 / 2024-10-28 21:23:40 / October 28, 2024 @ 9:23 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -66.736333333333 West, latitude 18.010166666667 North, depth = 15.63 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.63 km (10 miles).
Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 2 km NW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.
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