Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Isabela in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 22:29:06 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/02/20 / 2020-02-26 02:29:06 / February 26, 2020 @ 2:29 am. Exact location of event, depth 20 km, -67.2156° West, 19.1338° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020057004. Unique identifier: pr2020057004.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hatillo, Moca, Camuy. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 72 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.2156° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1338° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72km NNW of Isabela, 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	2020-02-26 02:29:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-26 02:48:14	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	188	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6744	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	288	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	pr2020057004	Id of event.
Event Code	2020057004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020057004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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