A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/01/20 / 2020-01-02 00:03:45 / January 2, 2020 @ 12:03 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020002000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020002000. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8966° West, 17.9273° North, depth 6 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:03:45 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Comerío, Corozal (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 four, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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