A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/01/20 / 2020-01-22 19:10:31 / January 22, 2020 @ 7:10 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:10:31 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020022048. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020022048. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 9 km, -66.8505° West, 17.838° North.
Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 51 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), 80 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guayama, Corozal, Cayey.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-six, in the last 10 days four hundred and thirty-one, in the past 30 days seven hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days eight hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 15 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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