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Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag has occurred near San Juan in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.5818S, -65.9958WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) strikes 124 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (77 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -65.9958 West, latitude 19.5818 North, depth = 33 km. The temblor was detected at 10:07:33 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019324014. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019324014. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/11/19 / 2019-11-20 14:07:33 / November 20, 2019 @ 2:07 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 124 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.9958° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5818° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124km N of San Juan, 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 2019-11-20 14:07:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-20 14:38:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 183 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2268 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 304 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 pr2019324014 Id of event.
Event Code 2019324014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019324014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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