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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.7695S, -66.8364WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8364 West, latitude 17.7695 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007wab. Unique identifier: us70007wab. The temblor was picked up at 01:27:10 / 1:27 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/02/20 / 2020-02-25 05:27:10 / February 25, 2020 @ 5:27 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naranjito, Arroyo, Cidra (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days ninety-nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and seven 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 23 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7695° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km 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 2020-02-25 05:27:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-25 05:34:24 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 222 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 0.25 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us70007wab Id of event.
Event Code 70007wab An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007wab, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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