A minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 13:41:10 / January 12, 2020 @ 1:41 pm. The 3.06-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:41:10 / 9:41 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020012099. Unique identifier: pr2020012099. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7531 West, latitude 18.0026 North, depth = 4 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty-seven, in the last 10 days four hundred and ten, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km SE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico.
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