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Minor earthquake: M3.31 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0153S, -67.5808WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was reported 81 kilometers (50 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.5808 West, latitude 19.0153 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 06:12:26 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020129007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020129007, us70009cb4. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 11:12:26 / May 8, 2020 @ 11:12 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela, Aguada, Aguadilla. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 81 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.31 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5808° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0153° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km 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 11:12:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 13:22:47 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 169 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.639 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 pr2020129007 Id of event.
Event Code 2020129007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020129007,us70009cb4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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