A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:19:40 / 3:19 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/04/20 / 2020-04-30 19:19:40 / April 30, 2020 @ 7:19 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020121021. Unique identifier: pr2020121021. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -66.796° West, 17.8376° North, depth 5 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Arroyo, Naranjito (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 fourty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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