A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020114021. Id of event: pr2020114021. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8345 West, latitude 17.99 North, depth = 16 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/04/20 / 2020-04-23 20:07:04 / April 23, 2020 @ 8:07 pm. The temblor was reported at 16:07:04 / 4:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 23 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayama, Toa Alta, San Antonio.
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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