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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.008S, -67.6551WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -67.6551° West, 19.008° North, depth 11.27 km. Global time and date of event 10/06/20 / 2020-06-10 22:34:20 / June 10, 2020 @ 10:34 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000a9l4. Event ids that are associated: us6000a9l4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.27 km (7 miles). The temblor was reported at 22:34:20 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rincón, Aguada, Aguadilla (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 81 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6551° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81 km 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 2020-06-10 22:34:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-10 22:41:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 211 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000a9l4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000a9l4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a9l4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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