A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.83° West, latitude 17.937° North, depth = 11 km. Global time and date of event 28/03/20 / 2020-03-28 12:33:15 / March 28, 2020 @ 12:33 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). The 2.93-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:33:15 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020088017. Unique identifier: pr2020088017.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guayama, Ceiba, Cidra (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ninety-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, six hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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