A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Jauca in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 23:29:06 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4 km, -66.3585° West, 17.8988° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/12/17 / 2017-12-19 03:29:06 / December 19, 2017 @ 3:29 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017353001. Id of event: pr2017353001.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Río Grande, Lajas, San Germán.
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 two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 7 km S of Jauca, Puerto Rico.
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