A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/12/17 / 2017-12-06 09:28:46 / December 6, 2017 @ 9:28 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2017340001. Unique identifier: pr2017340001. The temblor was detected at 05:28:46 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.8115° West, latitude 18.52° North, depth = 93 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 93 km (58 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguas Buenas, Cidra, Guaynabo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km NNE of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.
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