A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 16:29:09 / January 6, 2020 @ 4:29 pm. Unique identifier: pr2020006019. Ids that are associated to the event: pt20006004, us70006v9w, pr2020006019. The temblor was reported at 12:29:09 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -66.8556° West, 17.926° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Baja, Arroyo, Pájaros (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). 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. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days eighty, in the past 30 days ninety-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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