A minor earthquake magnitude 3.75 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2021004009. Event ids that are associated: pr2021004009. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:08:27 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.8076° West, latitude 17.9431° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/01/21 / 2021-01-04 19:08:27 / January 4, 2021 @ 7:08 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and eight and in the last 365 days two thousand, eight hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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, 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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