A light earthquake magnitude 4.06 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.8193° West, latitude 17.9773° North, depth = 11 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/06/20 / 2020-06-01 12:05:51 / June 1, 2020 @ 12:05 pm. The 4.06-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:05:51 / 12:05 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a3ml, pr2020153018. Id of event: pr2020153018.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and six and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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