A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:30:15 / 12:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 16:30:15 / January 21, 2020 @ 4:30 pm. Event id: pr2020021044. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020021044. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8966 West, latitude 17.9125 North, depth = 11 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Comerío, Corozal, Manatí. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-seven, in the last 10 days four hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy-one and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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