A minor earthquake magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 15:24:14 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8 km, -66.7568° West, 17.9566° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 19:24:14 / January 16, 2020 @ 7:24 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2020016018. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020016018.
Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-six, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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