A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 09:07:18 / January 15, 2020 @ 9:07 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:07:18 / 5:07 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020015044. Unique identifier: pr2020015044. Exact location, longitude -66.8561° West, latitude 17.8385° North, depth = 8 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Comerío, Manatí, Barceloneta (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty-nine, in the last 10 days five hundred and nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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