A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/03/20 / 2020-03-30 17:45:42 / March 30, 2020 @ 5:45 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020090016. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020090016. The temblor was reported at 13:45:42 / 1:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 15 km (9 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.8483° West, latitude 17.8793° North, depth = 15 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cayey, Corozal, Comerío (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, six hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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