A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Puerto Real in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/10/18 / 2018-10-17 03:49:22 / October 17, 2018 @ 3:49 am. Exact location, longitude -67.2475° West, latitude 18.1425° North, depth = 18 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:49:22 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2018290002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018290002.
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Florida, Estancias de Florida, Jayuya.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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