A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Yauco in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8241 West, latitude 17.9935 North, depth = 15 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020016000. Event ids that are associated: us700070m6, pr2020016000. Global time and date of event 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 00:24:48 / January 16, 2020 @ 12:24 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:24:48 / 8:24 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15 km (9 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Bayamón, Sabana Seca.
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and seventy-eight, in the past 30 days four hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 2 km ENE of Yauco, Puerto Rico.
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