A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/20 / 2020-04-26 04:48:11 / April 26, 2020 @ 4:48 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us60009ckz. Unique identifier: us60009ckz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8383 West, latitude 17.9567 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 00:48:11 / 12:48 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayama, Cidra, Ceiba. The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 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), 63 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and five and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico.
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