A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/04/20 / 2020-04-23 05:41:47 / April 23, 2020 @ 5:41 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020114007. Id of event: pr2020114007. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:41:47 / 1:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.8165° West, latitude 17.9471° North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayama, Ceiba, Cidra. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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 S of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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