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Minor earthquake: M3.29 quake has struck near Luquillo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.992S, -65.3986WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020313003. Id of event: pr2020313003. The temblor was detected at 11:08:16 / 11:08 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/11/20 / 2020-11-08 11:08:16 / November 8, 2020 @ 11:08 am. Exact location of earthquake, -65.3986° West, 18.992° North, depth 42 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Río Grande, Loíza, Fajardo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 76 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3986° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76 km NNE of Luquillo, 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 2020-11-08 11:08:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-08 11:33:49 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 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 167 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9618 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 322 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 pr2020313003 Id of event.
Event Code 2020313003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020313003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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