A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020022012. Unique identifier: pr2020022012. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/01/20 / 2020-01-22 00:33:14 / January 22, 2020 @ 12:33 am. The temblor was reported at 20:33:14 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9371 West, latitude 17.906 North, depth = 9 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aibonito, Manatí, Barceloneta (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 17 km (11 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 sixty-eight, in the last 10 days four hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days eight hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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