A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.9643° West, latitude 17.9626° North, depth = 9 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020122014, us7000986l. Unique identifier: pr2020122014. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/20 / 2020-05-01 12:11:05 / May 1, 2020 @ 12:11 pm. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:11:05 / 8:11 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 6 km WSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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