A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us60007gxh. Event ids that are associated: us60007gxh. The temblor was reported at 23:49:53 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 03:49:53 / January 27, 2020 @ 3:49 am. Exact location of event, longitude -66.762 West, latitude 18.0546 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaynabo, Levittown, Arroyo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days two hundred and fifty-six, in the past 30 days eight hundred and six and in the last 365 days nine hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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: 1 km SW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico.
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