A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 03:41:00 / September 24, 2019 @ 3:41 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:41:00 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019267049. Unique identifier: pr2019267049. Exact location of earthquake, -67.1778° West, 19.1775° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela. Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 76 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.
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