A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -67.3026 West, latitude 19.1435 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:42:44 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/10/19 / 2019-10-01 21:42:44 / October 1, 2019 @ 9:42 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2019274046. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019274046. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela. Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 fifteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 75 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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