A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:22:54 / 5:22 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/04/20 / 2020-04-13 21:22:54 / April 13, 2020 @ 9:22 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020104016. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020104016. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 11 km, -66.922° West, 17.8241° North.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barranquitas, Isabela, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ninety-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and 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 earthquakes in the world.
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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: 16 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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