A minor earthquake magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) strikes Puerto Rico kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 13:11:42 / January 11, 2020 @ 1:11 pm. The 3.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:11:42 / 1:11 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020011029. Unique identifier: pr2020011029. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.837° West, 17.9691° North, depth 10 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty-five, in the past 30 days three hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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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