A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/06/20 / 2020-06-13 17:10:42 / June 13, 2020 @ 5:10 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.5788 West, latitude 17.9226 North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000abf1, pr2020165018. Unique identifier: pr2020165018. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:10:42 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Las Piedras, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.
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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: 10 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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