A minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Fuig in Puerto Rico on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007el8, pr2020024003. Id of event: pr2020024003. The temblor was reported at 06:24:12 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 10:24:12 / January 24, 2020 @ 10:24 am. Exact location of event, longitude -66.949 West, latitude 17.9373 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corozal, Aibonito, Coco (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days three hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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 W of Fuig, Puerto Rico.
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