A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Puerto Real in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 13 km, -67.389° West, 18.1287° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/15 / 2015-09-14 01:53:16 / September 14, 2015 @ 1:53 am. The temblor was detected at 21:53:16 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15257000. Id of event: pr15257000. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Utuado, Hatillo, Peñuelas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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