A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8289 West, latitude 17.7948 North, depth = 1 km. Id of earthquake: us60007i3x. Event ids that are associated: us60007i3x. The epicenter was at a depth of 1 km (1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 10:38:41 / January 28, 2020 @ 10:38 am. The temblor was detected at 06:38:41 / 6:38 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Alta, Vega Baja, Naranjito. Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-three, in the past 30 days eight hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 21 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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