A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8981 West, latitude 17.8448 North, depth = 12 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020157013. Unique identifier: pr2020157013. The temblor was picked up at 18:51:48 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/06/20 / 2020-06-05 18:51:48 / June 5, 2020 @ 6:51 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Aibonito, Isabela.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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