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Minor earthquake 3.37 mag, 70 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico

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Earthquake location 19.116S, -66.7848WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Event id: pr2020089009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020089009, us70008i4g. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7848 West, latitude 19.116 North, depth = 12 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/03/20 / 2020-03-29 04:51:08 / March 29, 2020 @ 4:51 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:51:08 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barceloneta, Quebradillas, Isabela. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days nine hundred and thirteen 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 70 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7848° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.116° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km N of Hatillo, 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 2020-03-29 04:51:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-29 05:41:10 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 175 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.688 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 234 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 pr2020089009 Id of event.
Event Code 2020089009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020089009,us70008i4g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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