A minor earthquake magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 4 km, -66.7518° West, 17.9036° North. The temblor was detected at 12:12:56 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 16:12:56 / January 16, 2020 @ 4:12 pm. Unique identifier: pr2020016012. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020016012. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4 km (2 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas, Dorado. The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (40 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 fourty-nine, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-five, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-three 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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