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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0011S, -67.5586WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020118007, us60009d51. Unique identifier: pr2020118007. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:25:43 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/04/20 / 2020-04-27 07:25:43 / April 27, 2020 @ 7:25 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 76 km (47 miles). Exact location of event, depth 76 km, -67.5586° West, 19.0011° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moca, Rincón, Aguada (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 66 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5586° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0011° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 76 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 07:25:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-27 09:20:21 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 199 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 0.6217 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 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 pr2020118007 Id of event.
Event Code 2020118007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020118007,us60009d51, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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