A minor earthquake magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -67.664° West, latitude 18.1205° North, depth = 67 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/10/20 / 2020-10-05 19:15:08 / October 5, 2020 @ 7:15 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020279014. Id of event: pr2020279014. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67 km (42 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:15:08 / 7:15 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guánica, Isabela, San Sebastián. Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and six and in the last 365 days two thousand, nine hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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