A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Loiza in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr15250002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15250002. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/09/15 / 2015-09-07 03:57:49 / September 7, 2015 @ 3:57 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -65.8171° West, 19.0046° North. The temblor was reported at 23:57:49 / 11:57 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campanilla, Candelaria, Guaynabo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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 Loiza, Puerto Rico.
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