A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020078006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020078006. The 3.09-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:51:36 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 13 km, -66.9015° West, 17.9586° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 02:51:36 / March 18, 2020 @ 2:51 am.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cayey, Ceiba, Naranjito. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 1 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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