A minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.7705° West, 18.0156° North, depth 14 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020099020. Unique identifier: pr2020099020. The temblor was detected at 09:20:21 / 9:20 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/04/20 / 2020-04-08 13:20:21 / April 8, 2020 @ 1:20 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Bayamón, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and three, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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. 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: 0 km SW of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico.
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