A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:05:06 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/12/15 / 2015-12-06 00:05:06 / December 6, 2015 @ 12:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.425 West, latitude 18.7716 North, depth = 6 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr15340000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15340000.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hormigueros, Las Marías, Hatillo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-two 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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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. 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: 46 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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