A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/05/20 / 2020-05-07 07:40:20 / May 7, 2020 @ 7:40 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020128013, us70009bku. Unique identifier: pr2020128013. Exact location of event, longitude -67.2506 West, latitude 19.1963 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 03:40:20 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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 twenty-three, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days ninety-six and in the last 365 days one thousand and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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