A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 91 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (57 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -67.4756 West, latitude 19.2371 North, depth = 56 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/12/19 / 2019-12-17 08:05:05 / December 17, 2019 @ 8:05 am. Event id: pr2019351055. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019351055. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:05:05 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 56 km (35 miles).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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