A minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Global time and date of event 04/04/20 / 2020-04-04 19:34:56 / April 4, 2020 @ 7:34 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8653 West, latitude 17.836 North, depth = 9 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 15:34:56 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020095041. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020095041.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manatí, Barceloneta, Isabela. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 seven, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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