A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/07/15 / 2015-07-19 07:05:54 / July 19, 2015 @ 7:05 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15200035. Unique identifier: pr15200035. The temblor was picked up at 03:05:54 / 3:05 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles). Exact location of event, depth 30 km, -65.6883° West, 18.9773° North.
Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trujillo Alto, Cataño, Fajardo. Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
How would you describe the shaking?
How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 63 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Copyright © 2015 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply