Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 04:56:53 / 4:56 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2019358010. Event ids that are associated: pr2019358010. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -67.1326 West, latitude 19.0146 North, depth = 32 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/19 / 2019-12-24 08:56:53 / December 24, 2019 @ 8:56 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Sebastián, Rincón, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-nine and in the last 365 days eight hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 57 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.1326° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0146° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57km N 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	2019-12-24 08:56:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-24 11:53:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	158	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	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5475	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	285	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	pr2019358010	Id of event.
Event Code	2019358010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019358010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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