A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2558 West, latitude 19.0895 North, depth = 21 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/11/19 / 2019-11-30 00:35:23 / November 30, 2019 @ 12:35 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019334000. Id of event: pr2019334000. The temblor was detected at 20:35:23 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 21 km (13 miles).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quebradillas, Aguadilla, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days eighty-eight and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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