A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 14:27:49 / September 25, 2019 @ 2:27 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.2161° West, latitude 19.1593° North, depth = 25 km. The temblor was detected at 10:27:49 / 10:27 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019268010. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019268010.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days seventy-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty 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.
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