A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -66.7643° West, latitude 18.0061° North, depth = 13 km. Unique identifier: pr2020007034. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006vuk, pr2020007034. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:59:37 / 1:59 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 17:59:37 / January 7, 2020 @ 5:59 pm.
Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Bayamón, Sabana Seca.
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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