A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 14:13:29 / April 15, 2020 @ 2:13 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:13:29 / 10:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.8641° West, latitude 17.9563° North, depth = 8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020106007. Unique identifier: pr2020106007.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cidra, Ceiba, Cayey. Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close 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 two, in the last 10 days ninety-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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. 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 SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.
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