A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 20:24:08 / April 12, 2020 @ 8:24 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020103030. Unique identifier: pr2020103030. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8961 West, latitude 17.917 North, depth = 11 km. The temblor was reported at 16:24:08 / 4:24 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corozal, Aibonito, Manatí. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
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 sixty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 6 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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