A minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Lajas in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/04/20 / 2020-04-22 05:02:10 / April 22, 2020 @ 5:02 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:02:10 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.0076° West, latitude 18.0201° North, depth = 8 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020113001. Event ids that are associated: pr2020113001.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barranquitas, Salinas, Morovis. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 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 five, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km ESE of Lajas, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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