A minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 18:23:07 / April 12, 2020 @ 6:23 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.28-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:23:07 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.9476° West, 17.9581° North, depth 8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020103023. Id of event: pr2020103023.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Comerío, Vega Baja, Corozal. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and two, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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: 4 km WSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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