Minor earthquake: M3.01 quake has struck near Aguadilla in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Event id: pr2020029040. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020029040. The 3.01-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:37:53 / 5:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.5945° West, latitude 18.8365° North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 10:37:53 / January 29, 2020 @ 10:37 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Añasco, Isabela, Moca (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 64 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.01 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.5945° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8365° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km NW of Aguadilla, 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	2020-01-29 10:37:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-30 23:26:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	139	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	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4665	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	185	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	pr2020029040	Id of event.
Event Code	2020029040	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020029040,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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