A minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020095035, us70008npq. Id of event: pr2020095035. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/04/20 / 2020-04-04 16:28:56 / April 4, 2020 @ 4:28 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.79 West, latitude 18.0038 North, depth = 7 km. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:28:56 / 12:28 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguas Buenas, Arroyo, Ingenio (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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