A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:20:00 / 10:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/20 / 2020-03-17 14:20:00 / March 17, 2020 @ 2:20 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.903 West, latitude 17.9038 North, depth = 8 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020077017. Id of event: pr2020077017.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Comerío, Corozal, Manatí. Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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 S of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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