A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/04/20 / 2020-04-17 18:56:54 / April 17, 2020 @ 6:56 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8635° West, 17.9035° North, depth 13 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020108020. Event ids that are associated: pr2020108020. The temblor was picked up at 14:56:54 / 2:56 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naranjito, Vega Baja, Cayey. Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-three 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 8 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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