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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag has occurred near La Parguera in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9415S, -67.067WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2020273018. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c2y6, pr2020273018. Global time and date of event 29/09/20 / 2020-09-29 22:57:12 / September 29, 2020 @ 10:57 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 22:57:12 / 10:57 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.067 West, latitude 17.9415 North, depth = 11 km.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Salinas, Manatí (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days ninety-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 4 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.067° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9415° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 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 2020-09-29 22:57:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-29 23:30:23 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 2.654 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 176 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.036 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 pr2020273018 Id of event.
Event Code 2020273018 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c2y6,pr2020273018, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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