A minor earthquake magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Mayagüez in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 18 km (11 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.2568 West, latitude 18.1926 North, depth = 18 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2024324000. Unique identifier: pr2024324000. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/11/24 / 2024-11-19 23:40:21 / November 19, 2024 @ 11:40 pm. The temblor was detected at 23:40:21 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manatí, Ciales, Villalba. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days two 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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