A minor earthquake magnitude 3.65 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006y44, pr2020011002. Unique identifier: pr2020011002. The temblor was reported at 23:31:37 / 11:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 9 km, -66.9191° West, 17.9515° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 03:31:37 / January 11, 2020 @ 3:31 am UTC/GMT.
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayama, Cidra, Cayey (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 4 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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