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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.0559 West, latitude 17.8532 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/09/20 / 2020-09-27 04:26:40 / September 27, 2020 @ 4:26 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us6000c1ts. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c1ts. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:26:40 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Barceloneta, Coco (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-six and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0559° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8532° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km S of La Parguera, 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	2020-09-27 04:26:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-27 04:54:02	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	3.658	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	222	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	0.116	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	200	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	us6000c1ts	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c1ts	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c1ts,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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