A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Unique identifier: pr15269009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15269009. Exact location of earthquake, -65.237° West, 18.9445° North, depth 12 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:48:59 / 2:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/09/15 / 2015-09-26 18:48:59 / September 26, 2015 @ 6:48 pm.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Culebra (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 eight, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days ninety-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 71 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.
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