A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 08/12/17 / 2017-12-08 07:28:41 / December 8, 2017 @ 7:28 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2411 West, latitude 18.8535 North, depth = 7 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:28:41 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2017342000. Event ids that are associated: pr2017342000.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hormigueros, Maricao, Mayagüez. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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