A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007c0r. Unique identifier: us60007c0r. Global time and date of event 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 10:24:23 / January 21, 2020 @ 10:24 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -66.7551° West, 17.9851° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 06:24:23 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter).
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 Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown. Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 twenty-eight, in the last 10 days three hundred and seventy-nine, in the past 30 days six hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km SSE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico.
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