A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018150004. Unique identifier: pr2018150004. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 23:04:59 / May 30, 2018 @ 11:04 pm. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:04:59 / 7:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.4195° West, latitude 19.138° North, depth = 30 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dorado, Vega Baja (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 74 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.
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