A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7953 West, latitude 17.9302 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:57:18 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006vq1. Unique identifier: us70006vq1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 12:57:18 / January 7, 2020 @ 12:57 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days one hundred and ten, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 7 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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