A minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020118021, us60009djn. Unique identifier: pr2020118021. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/04/20 / 2020-04-27 22:24:27 / April 27, 2020 @ 10:24 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 18:24:27 / 6:24 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.9103 West, latitude 17.9156 North, depth = 8 km.
Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cayey, Vega Baja, Comerío (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and five and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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