A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:16:03 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70006w24. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006w24. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7579 West, latitude 17.9603 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 22:16:03 / January 7, 2020 @ 10:16 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, Levittown, Guaynabo. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifteen 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.
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