A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/11/18 / 2018-11-28 22:39:22 / November 28, 2018 @ 10:39 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2018332018. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018332018. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:39:22 / 6:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.222 West, latitude 19.0228 North, depth = 133 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 133 km (83 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Culebra (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 80 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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