A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.9576 West, latitude 17.9598 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/04/20 / 2020-04-01 06:00:22 / April 1, 2020 @ 6:00 am. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:00:22 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020092010. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020092010.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days ninety-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 5 km WSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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