A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2020095003. Event ids that are associated: us70008naj, pr2020095003. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7485 West, latitude 18.0211 North, depth = 15 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 22:40:06 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/04/20 / 2020-04-04 02:40:06 / April 4, 2020 @ 2:40 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Patillas, Guaynabo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eighty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km SE of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico.
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