A minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from San Jose in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/19 / 2019-12-07 21:38:55 / December 7, 2019 @ 9:38 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.2633 West, latitude 18.393 North, depth = 112 km. Unique identifier: pr2019341015. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019341015. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 112 km (70 miles). The temblor was detected at 17:38:55 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maricao, Las Marías, San Sebastián. The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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