A minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.7551° West, latitude 17.8851° North, depth = 4 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 14:20:07 / January 27, 2020 @ 2:20 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020027040. Id of event: pr2020027040. The temblor was detected at 10:20:07 / 10:20 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 20 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio, Pájaros, Toa Alta.
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days nine hundred and thirteen 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: 12 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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