A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 07:23:26 / 7:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2 West, latitude 19.1708 North, depth = 7 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019276010. Unique identifier: pr2019276010. Global time and date of event 03/10/19 / 2019-10-03 11:23:26 / October 3, 2019 @ 11:23 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 75 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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