A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2019268058. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019268058. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2596 West, latitude 19.0993 North, depth = 25 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 14:17:18 / September 25, 2019 @ 2:17 pm. The temblor was picked up at 10:17:18 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Aguadilla, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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