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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Stella in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:30:47 / 9:30 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 156.26 km (97 miles). Event id: us6000bf4t. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bf4t. Exact location, longitude -67.8096° West, latitude 18.1907° North, depth = 156.26 km. Global time and date of event 15/08/20 / 2020-08-15 09:30:47 / August 15, 2020 @ 9:30 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Germán, Lajas, Moca. Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop).

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

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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: 61 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.8096° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1907° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	156.26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61 km WSW of Stella, 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	2020-08-15 09:30:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-15 09:51:25	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	168	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.631	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	185	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	us6000bf4t	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bf4t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bf4t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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