A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 48 km, -65.2626° West, 18.8761° North. The temblor was detected at 08:51:05 / 8:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/08/15 / 2015-08-03 12:51:05 / August 3, 2015 @ 12:51 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48 km (30 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15215006. Unique identifier: pr15215006.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fajardo, Luquillo, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days ninety-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 63 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.
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