A minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Capitanejo in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.5715° West, latitude 17.9223° North, depth = 4 km. Global time and date of event 12/06/20 / 2020-06-12 08:20:16 / June 12, 2020 @ 8:20 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020164007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020164007. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:20:16 / 8:20 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Juncos, Trujillo Alto, Cataño. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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