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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 8 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9054S, -67.0034WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 10.14 km, -67.0034° West, 17.9054° North. Id of earthquake: us700070lh. Event ids that are associated: us700070lh. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.14 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 16:03:58 / January 15, 2020 @ 4:03 pm. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:03:58 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Barceloneta, Salinas (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and seventy-six, in the past 30 days four hundred and fourty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0034° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9054° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE of La Parguera, 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 2020-01-15 16:03:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-15 23:59:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 14 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 145 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.074 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 214 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 us700070lh Id of event.
Event Code 700070lh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700070lh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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