A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. Event id: us7000aeg8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000aeg8. Exact location of earthquake, -66.9238° West, 17.928° North, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 29/06/20 / 2020-06-29 16:59:14 / June 29, 2020 @ 4:59 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 16:59:14 / 4:59 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guayama, Cidra, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days eighty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-nine and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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