A minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020098021. Unique identifier: pr2020098021. Exact location, longitude -66.839° West, latitude 17.9983° North, depth = 11 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/04/20 / 2020-04-07 19:05:03 / April 7, 2020 @ 7:05 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 15:05:03 / 3:05 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria, Dorado. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Each 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 twelve, in the last 10 days ninety-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km WNW of Indios, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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