A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Mayaguez in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/05/18 / 2018-05-22 19:06:19 / May 22, 2018 @ 7:06 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 15:06:19 / 3:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 97 km (60 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.1546° West, 18.1726° North, depth 97 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018142013. Unique identifier: pr2018142013.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manatí, Ciales, Barceloneta. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 4 km (2 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SSW of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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