A minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2020012087. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020012087. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2 km (1 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:31:05 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7905 West, latitude 17.973 North, depth = 2 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 11:31:05 / January 12, 2020 @ 11:31 am.
Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguas Buenas, Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas. Event epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-four, in the last 10 days four hundred and one, in the past 30 days four hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventeen 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.
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