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Minor earthquake 3.79 mag, 68 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.79 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The 3.79-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:15:47 / 7:15 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/02/20 / 2020-02-18 23:15:47 / February 18, 2020 @ 11:15 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -67.3051° West, 19.11° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007sr3, pr2020049026. Unique identifier: pr2020049026.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, Rincón, Camuy (min 5000 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 five, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and four and in the last 365 days one thousand and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 68 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.79 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.3051° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.11° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km N of San Antonio, 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	2020-02-18 23:15:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-19 00:15:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	222	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6711	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	207	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	pr2020049026	Id of event.
Event Code	2020049026	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007sr3,pr2020049026,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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