A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8486° West, 17.9293° North, depth 9 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/06/20 / 2020-06-14 02:54:06 / June 14, 2020 @ 2:54 am. The 2.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:54:06 / 2:54 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020166004. Event ids that are associated: pr2020166004. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Alta, Naranjito, Vega Baja.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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