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Minor earthquake, 3.72 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0181S, -67.6775WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/06/20 / 2020-06-15 02:51:20 / June 15, 2020 @ 2:51 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000abz8, pr2020167004. Id of event: pr2020167004. The temblor was picked up at 02:51:20 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.6775° West, 19.0181° North, depth 4 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 84 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.72 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6775° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0181° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 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 2020-06-15 02:51:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-15 03:46:05 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 213 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.664 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 pr2020167004 Id of event.
Event Code 2020167004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000abz8,pr2020167004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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