A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8266° West, 17.9338° North, depth 6 km. The temblor was detected at 21:22:18 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/04/20 / 2020-04-16 01:22:18 / April 16, 2020 @ 1:22 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020107001. Unique identifier: pr2020107001.
The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Guayama, Cidra (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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