Minor earthquake: M3.19 quake has struck near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 83 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico (52 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/20 / 2020-12-11 21:09:59 / December 11, 2020 @ 9:09 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.5923 West, latitude 19.2151 North, depth = 26 km. The 3.19-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:09:59 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020346017. Unique identifier: pr2020346017. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

Did you feel the quake?

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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Arecibo Puerto Rico

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.19 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.5923° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2151° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	83 km N of Arecibo, 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	2020-12-11 21:09:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-11 21:40:11	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	157	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8834	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	280	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	pr2020346017	Id of event.
Event Code	2020346017	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020346017,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake: M3.19 quake has struck near Arecibo in Puerto Rico

Did you feel the quake?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information