A minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 04:55:42 / April 21, 2020 @ 4:55 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020112004. Id of event: pr2020112004. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8321 West, latitude 17.9493 North, depth = 12 km. The temblor was reported at 00:55:42 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio, Toa Alta, Guayama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 5 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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