A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8401 West, latitude 17.9313 North, depth = 8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020110018. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020110018. The temblor was reported at 13:35:16 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/04/20 / 2020-04-19 17:35:16 / April 19, 2020 @ 5:35 pm.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Guayama, Cidra (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 7 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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