A minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8128 West, latitude 17.981 North, depth = 11 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). The 3.45-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:59:43 / 10:59 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020020009. Event ids that are associated: pr2020020009. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 14:59:43 / January 20, 2020 @ 2:59 pm.
Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Sabana Seca, Aguas Buenas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety, in the past 30 days six hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 1 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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