A minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9135 West, latitude 17.9228 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/04/20 / 2020-04-24 14:02:30 / April 24, 2020 @ 2:02 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:02:30 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020115016. Unique identifier: pr2020115016.
Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corozal, Aibonito, Manatí (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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