A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Loiza in Puerto Rico. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:02:44 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 08:02:44 / September 27, 2015 @ 8:02 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15270015. Unique identifier: pr15270015. Exact location of event, longitude -65.834 West, latitude 18.801 North, depth = 15 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 15 km (9 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manatí, Morovis, Culebra. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days eighty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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