A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 22:03:43 / January 8, 2020 @ 10:03 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007efd. Unique identifier: us60007efd. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.7451° West, 17.9657° North. The temblor was reported at 18:03:43 / 6:03 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ingenio, Aguas Buenas, Candelaria Arenas. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and sixty-four, in the last 10 days seven hundred and two, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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. 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: 4 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.
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