A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8418 West, latitude 17.8676 North, depth = 13 km. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:28:48 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020091007. Event ids that are associated: pr2020091007. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/03/20 / 2020-03-31 07:28:48 / March 31, 2020 @ 7:28 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13 km (8 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayama, Corozal, Cayey. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, six hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 13 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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