Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Indios in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.7763° West, latitude 17.9228° North, depth = 7 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/10/20 / 2020-10-06 19:05:33 / October 6, 2020 @ 7:05 pm. The temblor was picked up at 19:05:33 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020280012. Id of event: pr2020280012.

Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ingenio, Patillas, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days one hundred and ten and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 9 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7763° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9228° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km SSE of Indios, 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	2020-10-06 19:05:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-06 19:42:26	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	2.2	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	168	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	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1154	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	195	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	pr2020280012	Id of event.
Event Code	2020280012	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020280012,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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