A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Las Marias in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2020112008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020112008. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 11:57:36 / April 21, 2020 @ 11:57 am. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:57:36 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.0535 West, latitude 18.267 North, depth = 17 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.
The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corozal, Vega Alta, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, four hundred and twenty-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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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: 6 km WNW of Las Marias, Puerto Rico.
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