A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 11:44:39 / January 19, 2020 @ 11:44 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:44:39 / 7:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8241° West, 17.8815° North. Id of earthquake: us60007amk. Event ids that are associated: us60007amk.
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toa Alta, Arroyo, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days three hundred and seventy-nine, in the past 30 days six hundred and four and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 12 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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