A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.8546° West, latitude 17.8272° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 21:59:26 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007g4q. Unique identifier: us60007g4q. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 01:59:26 / January 26, 2020 @ 1:59 am.
The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Naranjito, Cidra (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days three hundred, in the past 30 days seven hundred and eighty-two and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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