A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Villalba in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/15 / 2015-09-08 21:02:31 / September 8, 2015 @ 9:02 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15251009. Unique identifier: pr15251009. The temblor was reported at 17:02:31 / 5:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -66.4841° West, 18.215° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguada, Puerto Real, Aguadilla. The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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