A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 16:47:05 / April 18, 2020 @ 4:47 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:47:05 / 12:47 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020109021. Id of event: pr2020109021. Exact location, longitude -66.7116° West, latitude 17.9185° North, depth = 6 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Ingenio, Dorado (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 four, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.
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