A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/08/15 / 2015-08-06 04:29:39 / August 6, 2015 @ 4:29 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15218006. Id of event: pr15218006. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 58 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 00:29:39 / 12:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9555 West, latitude 19.1103 North, depth = 58 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Arecibo, Quebradillas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days sixty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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