A minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7438 West, latitude 17.9878 North, depth = 11 km. The 3.31-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:24:22 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020021005. Event ids that are associated: us60007c0r, pr2020021005. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 10:24:22 / January 21, 2020 @ 10:24 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles).
The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas (min 5000 pop). Close 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 twenty-nine, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty, in the past 30 days six hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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