A minor earthquake magnitude 3.64 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Id of earthquake: pr2020207002. Event ids that are associated: us6000b40j, pr2020207002. Global time and date of event 25/07/20 / 2020-07-25 12:59:49 / July 25, 2020 @ 12:59 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:59:49 / 12:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.7653° West, latitude 17.9955° North, depth = 11 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, Caguas, Guaynabo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days two thousand, four hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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