A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2020113012. Event ids that are associated: pr2020113012. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/04/20 / 2020-04-22 13:13:26 / April 22, 2020 @ 1:13 pm. The 3.04-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:13:26 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.897 West, latitude 17.93 North, depth = 4 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Baja, Comerío, Corozal. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 4 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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