A minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 02:31:57 / January 19, 2020 @ 2:31 am. The temblor was detected at 22:31:57 / 10:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.742 West, latitude 17.9306 North, depth = 7 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020019017. Unique identifier: pr2020019017.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas, Patillas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-five, in the last 10 days five hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 7 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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