A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8426 West, latitude 17.9446 North, depth = 9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:06:32 / 1:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 17:06:32 / January 13, 2020 @ 5:06 pm. Unique identifier: pr2020013015. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006z7h, pr2020013015.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguas Buenas, Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and four, in the past 30 days three hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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