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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 16 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8292S, -66.8516WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us60007bqn. Event ids that are associated: us60007bqn. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8516° West, 17.8292° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:35:00 / 7:35 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 23:35:00 / January 20, 2020 @ 11:35 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ceiba, Arroyo, Vega Alta.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 16 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8516° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8292° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km 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 2020-01-20 23:35:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-20 23:48:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 222 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 0.198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us60007bqn Id of event.
Event Code 60007bqn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007bqn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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