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Minor earthquake, 3.53 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9868S, -67.621WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 05:22:57 / 5:22 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2020129005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020129005. Exact location of event, longitude -67.621 West, latitude 18.9868 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 10:22:57 / May 8, 2020 @ 10:22 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela, Rincón, Aguada (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 77 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.53 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.621° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9868° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 2020-05-08 10:22:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 11:15:52 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 192 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020129005 Id of event.
Event Code 2020129005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020129005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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