A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 115 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico (71 miles). Event id: pr15211014. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15211014. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 56 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -66.3734° West, 19.5077° North, depth 56 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/07/15 / 2015-07-30 05:21:03 / July 30, 2015 @ 5:21 am. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:21:03 / 1:21 am (local time epicenter).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 115 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.
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