A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 04:55:05 / 4:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/20 / 2020-04-24 08:55:05 / April 24, 2020 @ 8:55 am. Exact location, longitude -66.9126° West, latitude 17.9708° North, depth = 9 km. Unique identifier: pr2020115009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020115009. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Baja, Corozal, Aibonito (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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