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Minor earthquake, 3.69 mag was detected near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.69 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/10/20 / 2020-10-11 04:00:47 / October 11, 2020 @ 4:00 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.0515° West, 17.9396° North, depth 12 km. The 3.69-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:00:47 / 4:00 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000c7fy, pr2020285006. Unique identifier: pr2020285006.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and fifty-one 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 3 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.69 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0515° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9396° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 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	2020-10-11 04:00:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-11 04:34:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	10	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.17	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	214	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0307	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	236	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	pr2020285006	Id of event.
Event Code	2020285006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c7fy,pr2020285006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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