A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2020009000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020009000. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:05:48 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 02:05:48 / January 9, 2020 @ 2:05 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8601 West, latitude 17.9211 North, depth = 6 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Guayama, Cidra. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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