A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2020026047. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020026047. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 20:23:23 / January 26, 2020 @ 8:23 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -66.646° West, 17.9001° North, depth 3 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 16:23:23 / 4:23 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Aguada, Isabela. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-seven, in the last 10 days three hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days nine hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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