A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/04/20 / 2020-04-11 20:57:54 / April 11, 2020 @ 8:57 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020102016. Id of event: pr2020102016. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8541° West, 17.8795° North, depth 11 km. The temblor was detected at 16:57:54 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cayey, Corozal, Comerío (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ninety, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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