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Minor earthquake: M3.89 quake has struck near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. The 3.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:44:16 / 4:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.8605° West, 17.8961° North, depth 12 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/07/20 / 2020-07-23 04:44:16 / July 23, 2020 @ 4:44 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2020205000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b2fi, pr2020205000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dorado, Campanilla, Toa Baja (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8605° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8961° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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	2020-07-23 04:44:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-23 05:38:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	38	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.2	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	256	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	0.0812	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	209	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2020205000	Id of event.
Event Code	2020205000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000b2fi,pr2020205000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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