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Minor earthquake: M3.38 quake has struck near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007hu2, pr2020028002. Unique identifier: pr2020028002. The epicenter was at a depth of 15 km (9 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:44:35 / 8:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 15 km, -66.8466° West, 17.9656° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 00:44:35 / January 28, 2020 @ 12:44 am.

Epicenter of the event was 25 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campanilla, Toa Baja, Pájaros (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days nine hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8466° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9656° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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	2020-01-28 00:44:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-28 01:29:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	180	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	0.034	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	203	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	pr2020028002	Id of event.
Event Code	2020028002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007hu2,pr2020028002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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