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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 19 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8638S, -66.8751WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2020035037. Event ids that are associated: us60007pie, pr2020035037. The epicenter was at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8751 West, latitude 17.8638 North, depth = 4 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 17:29:27 / February 4, 2020 @ 5:29 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:29:27 / 1:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Alta, Arroyo, Ceiba. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety, in the past 30 days nine hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 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: 19 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8751° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSE 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 2020-02-04 17:29:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-04 17:50:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.07 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 236 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 229 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 pr2020035037 Id of event.
Event Code 2020035037 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007pie,pr2020035037, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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