A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Vega Baja in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/17 / 2017-01-16 03:08:55 / January 16, 2017 @ 3:08 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 121 km (75 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:08:55 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17016001. Id of event: pr17016001. Exact location of event, depth 121 km, -66.3937° West, 18.4843° North.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, San Germán, Añasco (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 4 km N of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.
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