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Minor earthquake, 3.85 mag strikes near Rincon in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.85 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 137 km, -67.6095° West, 18.2346° North. Id of earthquake: pr2020084002. Event ids that are associated: pr2020084002, us70008exf. The temblor was picked up at 21:25:55 / 9:25 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/03/20 / 2020-03-24 02:25:55 / March 24, 2020 @ 2:25 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 137 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hatillo, Camuy, Yauco (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eighty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km WSW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.6095° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2346° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	137 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km WSW of Rincon, 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	2020-03-24 02:25:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-24 02:44:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	228	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,us,	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	0.1986	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 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	pr2020084002	Id of event.
Event Code	2020084002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020084002,us70008exf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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