A minor earthquake magnitude 3.65 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Unique identifier: pr2019362025. Ids that are associated to the event: pt19362002, us70006s13, pr2019362025. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8483 West, latitude 17.9035 North, depth = 6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/12/19 / 2019-12-28 23:35:59 / December 28, 2019 @ 11:35 pm. The 3.65-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:35:59 / 7:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pájaros, San Antonio, Arroyo. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 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 nine, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days sixty-two 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: 11 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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