A minor earthquake magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.863° West, latitude 17.9175° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ar1y, pr2020201000. Id of event: pr2020201000. The temblor was reported at 01:29:27 / 1:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/07/20 / 2020-07-19 01:29:27 / July 19, 2020 @ 1:29 am.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ceiba, Guayama, Cidra. Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 four, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days two thousand, four hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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