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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 66 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8913S, -67.573WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. Event id: us60009d51. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009d51. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.573° West, 18.8913° North, depth 35 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:25:44 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/04/20 / 2020-04-27 07:25:44 / April 27, 2020 @ 7:25 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Añasco, Quebradillas, Moca (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 66 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.573° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8913° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NW 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 2020-04-27 07:25:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-27 08:06:30 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 168 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.607 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60009d51 Id of event.
Event Code 60009d51 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009d51, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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