A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 10:54:01 / January 19, 2020 @ 10:54 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: pr2020019005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007am3, pr2020019005. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9818 West, latitude 17.9885 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 06:54:01 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Corozal, Aibonito, Coco.
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days six hundred and eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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