A minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 17:53:20 / 5:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/19 / 2019-09-28 21:53:20 / September 28, 2019 @ 9:53 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.2113 West, latitude 19.149 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019271060. Unique identifier: pr2019271060.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela. Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 73 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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