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Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1058S, -67.1798WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -67.1798° West, 19.1058° North, depth 9 km. The 3.25-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:52:13 / 3:52 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020199002. Event ids that are associated: us7000aqdg, pr2020199002. The epicenter was at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 15:52:13 / July 17, 2020 @ 3:52 pm.

Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Moca, Hatillo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 68 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.25 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1798° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1058° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68 km N 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 2020-07-17 15:52:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-18 00:40:03 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 162 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.642 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 225 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 pr2020199002 Id of event.
Event Code 2020199002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aqdg,pr2020199002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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