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Minor earthquake, 3.56 mag was detected near Fuig in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9543S, -66.9691WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.56 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Fuig in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.9691 West, latitude 17.9543 North, depth = 6 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ajvp, pr2020190002. Unique identifier: pr2020190002. The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:47:06 / 5:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/20 / 2020-07-08 05:47:06 / July 8, 2020 @ 5:47 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Vega Alta, Comerío (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 38 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 four, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-eight and in the last 365 days two thousand, four hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 6 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.56 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9691° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km WSW of Fuig, 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 2020-07-08 05:47:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-08 06:16:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.765 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 197 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0766 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 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 pr2020190002 Id of event.
Event Code 2020190002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ajvp,pr2020190002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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