A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The 2.98-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:35:57 / 7:35 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 11:35:57 / January 30, 2020 @ 11:35 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9385 West, latitude 17.9061 North, depth = 6 km. Event id: pr2020030031. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020030031.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Manatí, Barceloneta. The epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days two hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days nine hundred and three and in the last 365 days one thousand earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 7 km SSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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