A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 10:36:16 / January 6, 2020 @ 10:36 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020006011. Unique identifier: pr2020006011. The temblor was detected at 06:36:16 / 6:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.7923 West, latitude 17.9108 North, depth = 3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3 km (2 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pájaros, San Antonio, Toa Alta. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days seventy-seven, in the past 30 days eighty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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