Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag was detected near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.4508° West, latitude 19.1001° North, depth = 13 km. The 3.13-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:55:21 / 3:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/07/20 / 2020-07-12 15:55:21 / July 12, 2020 @ 3:55 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Event id: pr2020194006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000amb7, pr2020194006.

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camuy, Sabana Seca, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-four 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: 70 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.13 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.4508° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1001° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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	2020-07-12 15:55:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-12 21:58:53	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	151	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6279	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	274	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	pr2020194006	Id of event.
Event Code	2020194006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000amb7,pr2020194006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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