A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.2121 West, latitude 18.9161 North, depth = 26 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/19 / 2019-02-05 21:39:41 / February 5, 2019 @ 9:39 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019036041. Id of event: pr2019036041. The epicenter was at a depth of 26 km (16 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:39:41 / 5:39 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Culebra (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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