A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was reported 72 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019267018. Id of event: pr2019267018. The temblor was reported at 03:37:26 / 3:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 07:37:26 / September 24, 2019 @ 7:37 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46 km (29 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.3236 West, latitude 19.1143 North, depth = 46 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela. The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 72 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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