A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Puerto Real in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.6595 West, latitude 18.0755 North, depth = 60 km. Global time and date of event 23/08/15 / 2015-08-23 04:57:04 / August 23, 2015 @ 4:57 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:57:04 / 11:57 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15235001. Id of event: pr15235001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60 km (37 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Sabana Grande, Las Marías (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 50 km W of Puerto Real, Puerto Rico.
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