A minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 13 km, -66.7581° West, 17.9901° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020319004. Unique identifier: pr2020319004. The temblor was detected at 09:59:23 / 9:59 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/20 / 2020-11-14 09:59:23 / November 14, 2020 @ 9:59 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 3 km SSE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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