A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:09:05 / 10:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8666 West, latitude 17.822 North, depth = 8 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020081002. Event ids that are associated: pr2020081002. Global time and date of event 21/03/20 / 2020-03-21 02:09:05 / March 21, 2020 @ 2:09 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Arecibo, Hatillo. Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 17 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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