Minor earthquake: M3.79 quake has struck near Jauca in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.79 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Jauca in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -66.3368° West, 17.9461° North. Id of earthquake: pr2019298000. Event ids that are associated: pt19298050, us600062rb, pr2019298000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/10/19 / 2019-10-25 00:30:29 / October 25, 2019 @ 12:30 am. The 3.79-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:30:29 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Hormigueros, Fajardo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km SSE of Jauca, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.79 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.3368° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9461° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSE of Jauca, 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	2019-10-25 00:30:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-25 01:23:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	169	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	294	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	,pt,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2308	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	189	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	pr2019298000	Id of event.
Event Code	2019298000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt19298050,us600062rb,pr2019298000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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