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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Liborio Negron Torres in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9778S, -66.9451WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Liborio Negron Torres in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 08:47:25 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020106006. Event ids that are associated: us70008wqj, pr2020106006. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 12:47:25 / April 15, 2020 @ 12:47 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.9451 West, latitude 17.9778 North, depth = 9 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Corozal, Aibonito (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ninety-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 2 km SSE of Liborio Negron Torres, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9451° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SSE of Liborio Negron Torres, 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 2020-04-15 12:47:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-15 14:31:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 148 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0995 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 pr2020106006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020106006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008wqj,pr2020106006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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