A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/03/20 / 2020-03-17 14:38:15 / March 17, 2020 @ 2:38 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2020077018. Event ids that are associated: pr2020077018, us60008h63. The epicenter was at a depth of 15 km (9 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:38:15 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.8755° West, latitude 17.8865° North, depth = 15 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manatí, Barceloneta, Aibonito.
Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days sixty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 19 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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