A minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.9688 West, latitude 19.1298 North, depth = 77 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2017344007. Unique identifier: pr2017344007. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/12/17 / 2017-12-10 22:28:18 / December 10, 2017 @ 10:28 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 77 km (48 miles). The 3.28-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:28:18 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Barbara, Sabana Seca, Ingenio (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Sabana Seca (c. 6 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 74 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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