Minor earthquake, 3.22 mag has occurred near Rincón in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Rincón in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 04:49:37 / 4:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/11/20 / 2020-11-28 04:49:37 / November 28, 2020 @ 4:49 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020333001. Unique identifier: pr2020333001. Exact location, longitude -67.7905° West, latitude 18.5146° North, depth = 89 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 89 km (55 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Real, Mayagüez, Añasco. Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop). Close country/countries, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.22 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.7905° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5146° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	89 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60 km WNW of Rincón, 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	2020-11-28 04:49:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-28 05:59:18	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	160	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3375	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	186	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	pr2020333001	Id of event.
Event Code	2020333001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020333001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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