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Minor earthquake 3.21 mag, 69 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9975S, -67.85WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.85 West, latitude 18.9975 North, depth = 11 km. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:33:18 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Event id: pr2020030002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007jub, pr2020030002. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 06:33:18 / January 30, 2020 @ 6:33 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.85° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9975° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km NW of San Antonio, 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 2020-01-30 06:33:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-30 07:59:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.4 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 160 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 0.7165 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 322 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 pr2020030002 Id of event.
Event Code 2020030002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007jub,pr2020030002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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