A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -65.4024° West, latitude 18.0312° North, depth = 8 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17004000. Id of event: pr17004000. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/01/17 / 2017-01-04 01:02:10 / January 4, 2017 @ 1:02 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 21:02:10 / 9:02 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saint Croix, Guayama, Trujillo Alto. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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