Minor earthquake 3.86 mag, 13 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8418 West, latitude 17.9243 North, depth = 6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/12/19 / 2019-12-29 00:06:39 / December 29, 2019 @ 12:06 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:06:39 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019363000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19363050, us70006s1g, pr2019363000.

The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Patillas, Ingenio, Aguas Buenas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 13 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8418° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9243° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km S of Indios, 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	2019-12-29 00:06:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-29 00:47:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	27	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.7	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	242	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0631	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208	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	pr2019363000	Id of event.
Event Code	2019363000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt19363050,us70006s1g,pr2019363000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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