A minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Santa Isabel in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/12/24 / 2024-12-03 09:01:40 / December 3, 2024 @ 9:01 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71467608. Unique identifier: pr71467608. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.481 West, latitude 17.426833333333 North, depth = 10.75 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.75 km (7 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:01:40 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yauco, Villalba, Guánica (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Coamo (c. 11 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Juana Díaz (c. 9 400 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 60 km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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