A minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 08/06/20 / 2020-06-08 03:03:09 / June 8, 2020 @ 3:03 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020160001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020160001. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8945 West, latitude 17.9236 North, depth = 6 km. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:03:09 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ceiba, Vega Alta, Naranjito. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SSE of Guánica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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