A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 15:17:01 / April 12, 2020 @ 3:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8756 West, latitude 17.8306 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us70008uxq. Event ids that are associated: us70008uxq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 11:17:01 / 11:17 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manatí, Barceloneta, Isabela. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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