A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8212 West, latitude 17.8727 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 14:23:47 / January 16, 2020 @ 2:23 pm. The temblor was reported at 10:23:47 / 10:23 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us700070yi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700070yi. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Alta, Vega Baja, Cidra (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and seventy-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 13 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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