A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.851 West, latitude 17.8553 North, depth = 7 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/04/20 / 2020-04-10 11:03:38 / April 10, 2020 @ 11:03 am. Id of earthquake: pr2020101015. Event ids that are associated: pr2020101015. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:03:38 / 7:03 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela, Manatí, Barceloneta (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ninety-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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