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Minor earthquake 3.37 mag, 63 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0485S, -66.7063WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) was reported 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Carrizales in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact location, longitude -66.7063° West, latitude 19.0485° North, depth = 49 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/02/21 / 2021-02-22 21:49:50 / February 22, 2021 @ 9:49 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr2021053010. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2021053010. The 3.37-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:49:50 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Alta, Dorado, San Antonio. The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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 one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 63 km N of Carrizales, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7063° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0485° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km N of Carrizales, 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 2021-02-22 21:49:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-22 22:05:29 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 175 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5981 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 269 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 pr2021053010 Id of event.
Event Code 2021053010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021053010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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