A minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:53:00 / 6:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8685 West, latitude 17.8896 North, depth = 12 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70009860, pr2020122010. Unique identifier: pr2020122010. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/05/20 / 2020-05-01 10:53:00 / May 1, 2020 @ 10:53 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cayey, Comerío, Corozal (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-five 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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