A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 21:39:42 / January 11, 2020 @ 9:39 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8085 West, latitude 17.8899 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 17:39:42 / 5:39 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006yj8. Id of event: us70006yj8.
Event epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). 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 Pájaros, San Antonio, Toa Alta.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-nine, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty-three, in the past 30 days three hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 11 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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