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Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag has occurred near Aguadilla in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8625S, -67.6911WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -67.6911 West, latitude 18.8625 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 03/05/20 / 2020-05-03 11:09:45 / May 3, 2020 @ 11:09 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020124022. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020124022. The temblor was picked up at 06:09:45 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Cana, Isabela, Moca. Event epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days seventy-five and in the last 365 days one thousand and sixty-six 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.46 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6911° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8625° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km NW of Aguadilla, 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 2020-05-03 11:09:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-06 14:23:39 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 184 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 pr2020124022 Id of event.
Event Code 2020124022 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020124022, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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