A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019050014. Id of event: pr2019050014. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.2528 West, latitude 18.961 North, depth = 57 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/02/19 / 2019-02-19 07:03:56 / February 19, 2019 @ 7:03 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:03:56 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Culebra (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 73 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.
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