A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8603 West, latitude 17.933 North, depth = 11 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020030013. Event ids that are associated: pr2020030013. The temblor was reported at 15:42:01 / 3:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 19:42:01 / January 30, 2020 @ 7:42 pm.
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 Cidra, Ceiba, Vega Alta. Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and five, in the past 30 days eight hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days nine hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 5 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.
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