A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Palmarejo in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -67.0653° West, latitude 18.0078° North, depth = 5.93 km. Global time and date of event 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 23:33:43 / January 12, 2020 @ 11:33 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.93 km (4 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:33:43 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006yyg. Unique identifier: us70006yyg.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Vega Alta, Corozal (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km SSE of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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