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Minor earthquake, 3.47 mag has occurred near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9233S, -66.8491WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 19:39:22 / 7:39 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020359058. Event ids that are associated: pr2020359058. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 19:39:22 / December 24, 2020 @ 7:39 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8491 West, latitude 17.9233 North, depth = 12 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arroyo, Pájaros, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.47 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8491° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km SE of Maria Antonia, 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 2020-12-24 19:39:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-24 19:57:44 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 185 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2005 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 pr2020359058 Id of event.
Event Code 2020359058 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020359058, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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