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Minor earthquake 3.81 mag, 17 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9418S, -66.834WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.834° West, 17.9418° North, depth 7 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006yl8, pr2020012002. Unique identifier: pr2020012002. The 3.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:28:33 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 02:28:33 / January 12, 2020 @ 2:28 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Sabana Seca, Patillas. Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-four, in the past 30 days three hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 17 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.834° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9418° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SSE of Guanica, 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 2020-01-12 02:28:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-12 02:57:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 226 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.212 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 pr2020012002 Id of event.
Event Code 2020012002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006yl8,pr2020012002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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