A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 74 kilometers (46 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/02/20 / 2020-02-02 00:11:18 / February 2, 2020 @ 12:11 am. Unique identifier: us60007meq. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007meq. Exact location, longitude -67.5377° West, latitude 19.0162° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:11:18 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moca, Rincón, Aguada (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).
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 fourteen, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 74 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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