A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020104004. Unique identifier: pr2020104004. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/04/20 / 2020-04-13 07:01:58 / April 13, 2020 @ 7:01 am. Exact location, longitude -66.9333° West, latitude 17.9773° North, depth = 9 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:01:58 / 3:01 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Corozal, Aibonito, Coco (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 2 km WNW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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