A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Puerto Real in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 00:51:20 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.2857 West, latitude 18.0921 North, depth = 17 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17 km (11 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/05/16 / 2016-05-15 04:51:20 / May 15, 2016 @ 4:51 am. Unique identifier: pr16136002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16136002.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jayuya, Arecibo, Ponce. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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