A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7146 West, latitude 17.938 North, depth = 7 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020109018. Unique identifier: pr2020109018. The temblor was detected at 11:58:27 / 11:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 15:58:27 / April 18, 2020 @ 3:58 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Guaynabo, Bayamón. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 three, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and twenty-nine 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.
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