A minor earthquake magnitude 3.66 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.5051 West, latitude 18.6761 North, depth = 84 km. The temblor was detected at 07:27:30 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 84 km (52 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/18 / 2018-07-15 12:27:30 / July 15, 2018 @ 12:27 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018196006, us2000g5lm. Id of event: pr2018196006.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lajas, San Germán, Lares (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-one 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: 49 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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