A minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.9203° West, latitude 17.925° North, depth = 12 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:28:26 / 6:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/04/20 / 2020-04-08 10:28:26 / April 8, 2020 @ 10:28 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020099015, us70008rjq. Unique identifier: pr2020099015.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Comerío, Corozal, Aibonito. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days one hundred and three, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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