A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/04/20 / 2020-04-29 02:15:56 / April 29, 2020 @ 2:15 am. Event id: pr2020120005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020120005, us60009efq. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:15:56 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8826 West, latitude 18.0021 North, depth = 11 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Alta, San Antonio, Cidra. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-five 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: 1 km ENE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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