A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 05:50:26 / January 9, 2020 @ 5:50 am. Unique identifier: pr2020009007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020009007. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 9 km, -66.9273° West, 17.9036° North. The temblor was reported at 01:50:26 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Comerío, Corozal (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km SSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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