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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9313S, -66.8237WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Friday. The temblor was detected at 03:52:52 / 3:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8237° West, 17.9313° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007pw3. Unique identifier: us70007pw3. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/02/20 / 2020-02-14 07:52:52 / February 14, 2020 @ 7:52 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ingenio, Aguas Buenas, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-one, in the past 30 days six hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 6 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8237° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9313° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2020-02-14 07:52:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-14 07:59:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.941 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 200 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 0.12 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us70007pw3 Id of event.
Event Code 70007pw3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007pw3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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