A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23 km (14 miles). Event id: pr2019267012. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005mlm, pr2019267012. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 06:15:10 / September 24, 2019 @ 6:15 am. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:15:10 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2126 West, latitude 19.1708 North, depth = 23 km.
Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela (min 5000 pop).
Each 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 twenty-five, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 50 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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