Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.1164 West, latitude 17.8447 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000c1ky. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c1ky. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/09/20 / 2020-09-26 11:14:43 / September 26, 2020 @ 11:14 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:14:43 / 11:14 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, Camuy, Santa Isabel (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days seventy-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km SSE of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.1164° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8447° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16 km SSE of Pole Ojea, 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	2020-09-26 11:14:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-26 11:32:03	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	158	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	0.141	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	213	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	us6000c1ky	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c1ky	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c1ky,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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