A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Cidra in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 04:55:51 / 4:55 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 08:55:51 / August 15, 2015 @ 8:55 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -66.1751° West, latitude 18.1688° North, depth = 16 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15227004. Id of event: pr15227004.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hatillo, Lares, Yauco (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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