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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag was detected near Guánica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9425S, -66.9563WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -66.9563° West, 17.9425° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/20 / 2020-07-03 21:22:01 / July 3, 2020 @ 9:22 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:22:01 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2020185024. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ahkq, pr2020185024.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Corozal, Aibonito.

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

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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: 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9563° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9425° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km WSW of Guánica, 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 2020-07-03 21:22:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-04 21:25:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 178 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0837 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 pr2020185024 Id of event.
Event Code 2020185024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ahkq,pr2020185024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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