A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/01/17 / 2017-01-25 12:01:55 / January 25, 2017 @ 12:01 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -67.4895 West, latitude 18.7439 North, depth = 18 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:01:55 / 8:01 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr17025006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17025006.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hormigueros, Las Marías, Hatillo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 49 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
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