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Minor earthquake, 3.44 mag has occurred near Aguadilla in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8258S, -67.6383WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/09/20 / 2020-09-08 23:06:05 / September 8, 2020 @ 11:06 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2020252022. Event ids that are associated: pr2020252022. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.44-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:06:05 / 11:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -67.6383° West, 18.8258° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quebradillas, Añasco, Isabela (min 5000 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 67 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6383° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8258° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km NW of Aguadilla, 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 2020-09-08 23:06:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-08 23:40:37 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 182 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4692 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 221 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 pr2020252022 Id of event.
Event Code 2020252022 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020252022, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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