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Minor earthquake, 3.81 mag has occurred near Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9691S, -66.837WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) strikes Puerto Rico kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 13:11:42 / January 11, 2020 @ 1:11 pm. The 3.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:11:42 / 1:11 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020011029. Unique identifier: pr2020011029. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.837° West, 17.9691° North, depth 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty-five, in the past 30 days three hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9691° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 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 2020-01-11 13:11:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-11 23:27:06 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 223 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0426 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020011029 Id of event.
Event Code 2020011029 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020011029, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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