A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/04/20 / 2020-04-05 21:55:12 / April 5, 2020 @ 9:55 pm. The temblor was picked up at 17:55:12 / 5:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9279 West, latitude 17.9039 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us70008pi1. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008pi1. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Manatí, Barceloneta (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days eighty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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