A minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 05:42:36 / September 24, 2019 @ 5:42 am. Exact location of event, depth 43 km, -67.3466° West, 19.1556° North. Event id: pr2019267016. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005ml6, pr2019267016. The temblor was detected at 01:42:36 / 1:42 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 60 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.
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