A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 15:18:06 / 3:18 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 19:18:06 / April 12, 2020 @ 7:18 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -66.9303° West, 17.8035° North, depth 10 km. Event id: pr2020103025. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020103025.
Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, Ciales, Camuy.
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days ninety-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 18 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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