A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.8873° West, latitude 17.9166° North, depth = 4 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 05:19:27 / April 12, 2020 @ 5:19 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020103006. Unique identifier: pr2020103006. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:19:27 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Comerío, Corozal, Manatí (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days ninety-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 6 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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