A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 55 km, -66.6123° West, 18.9996° North. The temblor was detected at 18:36:05 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018003014. Unique identifier: pr2018003014. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/01/18 / 2018-01-03 22:36:05 / January 3, 2018 @ 10:36 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candelaria, Toa Alta, Sabana Seca. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Candelaria (c. 17 600 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. 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: 59 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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