A minor earthquake magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.879° West, 17.9501° North, depth 8 km. The 3.34-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:44:25 / 5:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 10/01/20 / 2020-01-10 21:44:25 / January 10, 2020 @ 9:44 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2020010059. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020010059.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayama, Cidra, Ceiba.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days two hundred and nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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