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Minor earthquake, 3.36 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1383S, -67.3158WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.36-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:10:26 / 10:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.3158 West, latitude 19.1383 North, depth = 38 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/20 / 2020-08-09 10:10:26 / August 9, 2020 @ 10:10 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020222019. Id of event: pr2020222019.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Isabela (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 75 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.36 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3158° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1383° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 km NNW 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 2020-08-09 10:10:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-16 21:20:08 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 174 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7013 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 294 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 pr2020222019 Id of event.
Event Code 2020222019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020222019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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