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Minor earthquake, 3.44 mag strikes near La Parguera in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9168S, -67.0068WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 14:42:09 / February 8, 2020 @ 2:42 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 10:42:09 / 10:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.0068° West, latitude 17.9168° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020039033. Id of event: pr2020039033. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Barranquitas, Coco (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0068° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9168° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSE of La Parguera, 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 2020-02-08 14:42:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-08 15:39:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 182 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1364 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 242 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 pr2020039033 Id of event.
Event Code 2020039033 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020039033, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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