A minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) strikes 99 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (62 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 43 km (27 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.6546 West, latitude 19.2153 North, depth = 43 km. Event id: pr2020001141. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020001141. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/01/20 / 2020-01-01 09:14:52 / January 1, 2020 @ 9:14 am. The 3.02-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:14:52 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days eighty, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days one thousand and six 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 99 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.
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