A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.5835° West, 17.9213° North, depth 6 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/06/20 / 2020-06-11 06:45:17 / June 11, 2020 @ 6:45 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000a9r7, pr2020163010. Unique identifier: pr2020163010. The temblor was reported at 06:45:17 / 6:45 am (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 10 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rincón, Humacao, Carolina.
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 10 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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