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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9101S, -67.3775WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. The 3.23-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:56:22 / 5:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.3775° West, latitude 18.9101° North, depth = 19 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020076028. Unique identifier: pr2020076028. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/03/20 / 2020-03-16 21:56:22 / March 16, 2020 @ 9:56 pm.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Sebastián, Hatillo, Añasco (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3775° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9101° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km NNW 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 2020-03-16 21:56:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-16 22:07:37 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 161 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5354 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 286 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 pr2020076028 Id of event.
Event Code 2020076028 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020076028, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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