A minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 14:07:24 / January 6, 2020 @ 2:07 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:07:24 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -66.814° West, latitude 17.9498° North, depth = 7 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020006047. Id of event: pr2020006047.
Close 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 Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria, Dorado. Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days ninety-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 4 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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