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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8437S, -66.8028WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:44:45 / 6:44 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.31 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 10:44:45 / January 6, 2020 @ 10:44 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8028° West, 17.8437° North, depth 10.31 km. All ids that are associated to the event: usa0006bij. Unique identifier: usa0006bij.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Alta, Vega Baja, Arroyo. Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine hundred and eighty-nine, in the last 10 days one thousand and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days one thousand and fifty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Questions or comments?

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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8028° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8437° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km S of Indios, 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 2020-01-06 10:44:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-04 13:24:24 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 168 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 0.272 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 220 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 usa0006bij Id of event.
Event Code a0006bij An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0006bij, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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