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Minor earthquake, 3.57 mag has occurred near Palmarejo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9965S, -67.072WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Palmarejo in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Id of earthquake: pr2020012019. Event ids that are associated: us70006yyg, pr2020012019. The 3.57-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:33:43 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 23:33:43 / January 12, 2020 @ 11:33 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -67.072° West, 17.9965° North, depth 7 km.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barranquitas, Salinas, Morovis. The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-seven, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SSE of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.57 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.072° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9965° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE of Palmarejo, 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 23:33:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-13 00:11:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 21 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 205 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0388 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 pr2020012019 Id of event.
Event Code 2020012019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006yyg,pr2020012019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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