A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Fuig in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2024329003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2024329003. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/11/24 / 2024-11-24 05:36:01 / November 24, 2024 @ 5:36 am. Exact location of event, longitude -66.9695 West, latitude 17.9805 North, depth = 6 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.36-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:36:01 / 5:36 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Corozal, Aibonito. The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 5 km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico.
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