A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/04/20 / 2020-04-23 04:15:04 / April 23, 2020 @ 4:15 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020114006. Id of event: pr2020114006. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:15:04 / 12:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 13 km, -66.8568° West, 17.9028° North.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naranjito, Vega Baja, Cayey. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 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 eight, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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