A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2020084021. Event ids that are associated: pr2020084021. Exact location, longitude -66.8306° West, latitude 17.9866° North, depth = 13 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Global time and date of event 24/03/20 / 2020-03-24 18:14:35 / March 24, 2020 @ 6:14 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:14:35 / 2:14 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toa Alta, Guayama, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Every 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 fourteen, in the last 10 days ninety, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty and in the last 365 days one thousand, six hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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 Indios, Puerto Rico.
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