A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 05:58:02 / 5:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.8233° West, latitude 17.9148° North, depth = 8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 09:58:02 / January 6, 2020 @ 9:58 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020006005. Unique identifier: pr2020006005.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Vega Alta, Cidra. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days ninety-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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