A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Central Aguirre in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15320002. Unique identifier: pr15320002. The temblor was detected at 01:44:03 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -66.2519° West, 17.9435° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 16/11/15 / 2015-11-16 05:44:03 / November 16, 2015 @ 5:44 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lares, Arecibo, Sabana Grande (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 3 km WSW of Central Aguirre, Puerto Rico.
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