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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico

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Earthquake location 17.8551S, -66.8571WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/04/20 / 2020-04-28 04:40:14 / April 28, 2020 @ 4:40 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). The 3.29-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:40:14 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.8571° West, 17.8551° North, depth 6 km. Unique identifier: pr2020119003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020119003, us60009dq6.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cidra, Naranjito, Guayama. Earthquake epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and six and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-nine 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8571° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8551° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SSE of Guanica, 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 2020-04-28 04:40:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-28 05:05:34 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 167 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2193 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222 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 pr2020119003 Id of event.
Event Code 2020119003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020119003,us60009dq6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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