A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2020114014. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020114014. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/20 / 2020-04-23 10:50:38 / April 23, 2020 @ 10:50 am. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:50:38 / 6:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.8953° West, latitude 17.8788° North, depth = 11 km.
Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manatí, Barceloneta, Aibonito (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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