A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Morovis in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 134 km (83 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/16 / 2016-12-05 21:24:40 / December 5, 2016 @ 9:24 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -66.3616° West, latitude 18.27° North, depth = 134 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16340033. Unique identifier: pr16340033. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:24:40 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, San Germán, Fajardo. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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