A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8581 West, latitude 17.9678 North, depth = 16 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020112016. Id of event: pr2020112016. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 21:29:09 / April 21, 2020 @ 9:29 pm. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:29:09 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cidra, Ceiba, Cayey (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 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 five, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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 ESE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.
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