A minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 02:11:16 / 2:11 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 06:11:16 / January 11, 2020 @ 6:11 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.7353 West, latitude 18.0013 North, depth = 7 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020011073. Unique identifier: pr2020011073.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 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 one hundred and twenty-six, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighteen, in the past 30 days three hundred and sixty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 2 km WNW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.
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