A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr15210003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15210003. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 08:52:29 / July 29, 2015 @ 8:52 am. The temblor was detected at 04:52:29 / 4:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.4424° West, 18.8174° North, depth 96 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 96 km (60 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gurabo, San Sebastián, Adjuntas. Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 56 km (34 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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