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Minor earthquake, 3.34 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9155S, -67.668WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020174016. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000agug, pr2020174016. Exact location of event, longitude -67.668 West, latitude 18.9155 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 22/06/20 / 2020-06-22 22:55:38 / June 22, 2020 @ 10:55 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 22:55:38 / 10:55 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela, Aguada, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 76 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.34 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9155° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-22 22:55:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-23 00:41:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 172 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5636 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020174016 Id of event.
Event Code 2020174016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000agug,pr2020174016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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