A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 05:55:26 / January 9, 2020 @ 5:55 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020009050. Id of event: pr2020009050. The temblor was detected at 01:55:26 / 1:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9438 West, latitude 17.9613 North, depth = 8 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corozal, Aibonito, Coco (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km WSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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