A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8256 West, latitude 17.9645 North, depth = 8 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 16:27:07 / January 7, 2020 @ 4:27 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20007030, us70006vsx, pr2020007023. Id of event: pr2020007023. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 12:27:07 / 12:27 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maunabo, Trujillo Alto, Gurabo.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 6 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.
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