A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: us70006vr1. Ids that are associated to the event: pt20007026, us70006vr1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -66.7708° West, latitude 17.8551° North, depth = 7 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 14:04:44 / January 7, 2020 @ 2:04 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:04:44 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trujillo Alto, San Juan, Yabucoa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventeen, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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