A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 85 kilometers (53 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.7131° West, 18.99° North, depth 8 km. Unique identifier: pr2020161026. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020161026. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:18:01 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/06/20 / 2020-06-09 16:18:01 / June 9, 2020 @ 4:18 pm.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 85 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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