A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8511° West, 17.9156° North, depth 13 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020015084. Unique identifier: pr2020015084. The temblor was detected at 12:10:01 / 12:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 16:10:01 / January 15, 2020 @ 4:10 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naranjito, Vega Baja, Cayey (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-two, in the last 10 days five hundred and twenty-eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 8 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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