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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.7897S, -66.8721WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 22:25:21 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 9.28 km (6 miles). Event id: us60007dfk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007dfk. Global time and date of event 22/01/20 / 2020-01-22 02:25:21 / January 22, 2020 @ 2:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8721° West, 17.7897° North, depth 9.28 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Corozal, Comerío, Guayama. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days three hundred and seventy-one, in the past 30 days seven hundred and five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-two 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.

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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: 20 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8721° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7897° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km S 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 2020-01-22 02:25:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 03:05:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 199 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 0.255 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 219 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 us60007dfk Id of event.
Event Code 60007dfk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007dfk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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