A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8758 West, latitude 17.7543 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000adz8. Unique identifier: us6000adz8. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/06/20 / 2020-06-18 06:24:17 / June 18, 2020 @ 6:24 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:24:17 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barranquitas, Aguada, Rincón. Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop). Nearby 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 fifty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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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. 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: 24 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
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