A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 15:41:12 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8358 West, latitude 17.9365 North, depth = 9 km. Event id: pr2020008084. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020008084. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 19:41:12 / January 8, 2020 @ 7:41 pm.
Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayama, Ceiba, Cidra (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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