A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8603 West, latitude 17.8518 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 09:20:40 / January 27, 2020 @ 9:20 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020027039. Id of event: pr2020027039. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:20:40 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manatí, Barceloneta, Isabela. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-four, in the last 10 days three hundred, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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