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Minor earthquake: M3.63 quake has struck near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2020359022. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d2hh, pr2020359022. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 07:51:30 / December 24, 2020 @ 7:51 am. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8458° West, 17.9365° North, depth 11 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). The 3.63-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:51:30 / 7:51 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria, Dorado. The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days two thousand, eight hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 6 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.63 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8458° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9365° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 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 07:51:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-24 08:23:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	13	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.217	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	208	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2011	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	193	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	pr2020359022	Id of event.
Event Code	2020359022	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d2hh,pr2020359022,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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