A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ae1k. Unique identifier: us7000ae1k. The temblor was reported at 03:56:39 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.9228° West, 17.9217° North, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/06/20 / 2020-06-29 03:56:39 / June 29, 2020 @ 3:56 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Corozal, Aibonito, Manatí. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days eighty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-one and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 5 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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