A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.876 West, latitude 17.8105 North, depth = 7 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020031014. Event ids that are associated: pr2020031014. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/01/20 / 2020-01-31 02:43:07 / January 31, 2020 @ 2:43 am. The temblor was picked up at 22:43:07 / 10:43 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Arecibo, Hatillo. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days two hundred and one, in the past 30 days eight hundred and ninety-nine and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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