A minor earthquake magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/06/20 / 2020-06-27 14:04:05 / June 27, 2020 @ 2:04 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.801° West, latitude 17.9453° North, depth = 8 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020179010. Event ids that are associated: pr2020179010. The temblor was detected at 14:04:05 / 2:04 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arroyo, Pájaros, San Antonio. Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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