A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/04/20 / 2020-04-27 17:21:14 / April 27, 2020 @ 5:21 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8572° West, 17.8666° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 13:21:14 / 1:21 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60009dcb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009dcb.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Alta, Cidra, Vega Baja. The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and one and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 12 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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