A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: us700070jn. Unique identifier: us700070jn. 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: 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 21:51:48 / January 14, 2020 @ 9:51 pm. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:51:48 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8718 West, latitude 17.7973 North, depth = 10 km.
The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 27 km (16 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela, Arecibo, Hatillo. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days three hundred and sixty-nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 19 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico.
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