A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us70008ma2. Unique identifier: us70008ma2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/04/20 / 2020-04-03 03:18:47 / April 3, 2020 @ 3:18 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.7972° West, 18.0362° North. The temblor was detected at 23:18:47 / 11:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the event was 20 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days eighty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.
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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 NNW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.
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