A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020105020. Unique identifier: pr2020105020. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8155° West, 17.9631° North, depth 9 km. The temblor was detected at 19:32:34 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/04/20 / 2020-04-14 23:32:34 / April 14, 2020 @ 11:32 pm UTC/GMT.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio, Toa Alta, Guayama. Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 3 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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