A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2019252006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019252006. Exact location of event, longitude -67.594 West, latitude 18.9161 North, depth = 4 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:42:52 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/19 / 2019-09-09 22:42:52 / September 9, 2019 @ 10:42 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moca, Isabela, Rincón. Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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