Minor earthquake: M3.17 quake has struck near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -67.0655 West, latitude 17.928 North, depth = 11 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:39:36 / 4:39 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/09/20 / 2020-09-27 04:39:36 / September 27, 2020 @ 4:39 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2020271006. Event ids that are associated: us6000c1u7, pr2020271006.

Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barceloneta, Orocovis, Ciales (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days ninety-four and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0655° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.928° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SSW 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 04:39:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-27 07:07:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	155	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	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0466	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	239	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	pr2020271006	Id of event.
Event Code	2020271006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c1u7,pr2020271006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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