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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9703S, -66.8696WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:57:50 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8696 West, latitude 17.9703 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bp6e. Unique identifier: us7000bp6e. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/09/20 / 2020-09-16 21:57:50 / September 16, 2020 @ 9:57 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toa Alta, San Antonio, Guayama. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 2 km ESE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8696° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km ESE 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 2020-09-16 21:57:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-16 22:10:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 148 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 0.076 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us7000bp6e Id of event.
Event Code 7000bp6e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bp6e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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