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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Puerto Rico region

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:24:42 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000bgwz. Unique identifier: us6000bgwz. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.39 km (11 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.9878° West, 17.8805° North, depth 17.39 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/08/20 / 2020-08-19 00:24:42 / August 19, 2020 @ 12:24 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Manatí, Barranquitas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 four, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Puerto Rico region.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.9878° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8805° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Puerto Rico region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-08-19 00:24:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-19 00:34:08	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	211	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	0.103	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	171	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	us6000bgwz	Id of event.
Event Code	6000bgwz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000bgwz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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