A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/12/15 / 2015-12-15 13:28:58 / December 15, 2015 @ 1:28 pm. Id of earthquake: pr15349003. Event ids that are associated: pr15349003. The temblor was reported at 09:28:58 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23 km (14 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.1895 West, latitude 18.5937 North, depth = 23 km.
Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayanilla, Manatí, Jayuya. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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