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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7568S, -67.2881WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/11/20 / 2020-11-18 22:04:01 / November 18, 2020 @ 10:04 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2020323017. Event ids that are associated: us6000cq2k, pr2020323017. Exact location of event, depth 9 km, -67.2881° West, 18.7568° North. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:04:01 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Germán, Puerto Real, Cabo Rojo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days three thousand, one hundred and fourty-nine 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. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2881° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7568° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km NW of San Antonio, 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 2020-11-18 22:04:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-18 22:59:58 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 171 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3391 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 pr2020323017 Id of event.
Event Code 2020323017 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cq2k,pr2020323017, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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