A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -67.1968 West, latitude 19.1185 North, depth = 79 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/12/19 / 2019-12-12 07:58:34 / December 12, 2019 @ 7:58 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 79 km (49 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:58:34 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019346007. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019346007.
Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camuy, Aguadilla, Quebradillas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 four, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days ninety-six and in the last 365 days eight hundred and nineteen 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. 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: 70 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.
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