A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -66.9815° West, 17.9663° North. The temblor was detected at 21:03:23 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 01:03:23 / April 12, 2020 @ 1:03 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020103000. Id of event: pr2020103000.
Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coco, Barranquitas, Manatí. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ninety-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-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. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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