A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 13.94 km, -66.8467° West, 17.9389° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 10:47:26 / January 16, 2020 @ 10:47 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 06:47:26 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us700070vb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700070vb. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.94 km (9 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Baja, Arroyo, Pájaros (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-seven, in the past 30 days four hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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