A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019365041. Unique identifier: pr2019365041. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/19 / 2019-12-31 21:34:33 / December 31, 2019 @ 9:34 pm. Exact location, longitude -66.8921° West, latitude 17.9055° North, depth = 6 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:34:33 / 5:34 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Comerío, Corozal, Manatí.
In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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