A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 03/12/19 / 2019-12-03 22:25:28 / December 3, 2019 @ 10:25 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019337007. Id of event: pr2019337007. The temblor was reported at 18:25:28 / 6:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 14 km, -67.1318° West, 19.0955° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 14 km (9 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, Camuy, Aguadilla. The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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