A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 09:07:00 / April 21, 2020 @ 9:07 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17 km (11 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8383 West, latitude 18.0095 North, depth = 17 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:07:00 / 5:07 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020112007. Id of event: pr2020112007.
Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campanilla, Dorado, Toa Baja (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 2 km NW of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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