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Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag strikes near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.2121S, -66.9435WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:54:35 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 07:54:35 / January 6, 2020 @ 7:54 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020006003. Id of event: pr2020006003. Exact location, longitude -66.9435° West, latitude 19.2121° North, depth = 39 km.

The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Camuy (c. 4 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, Camuy, Isabela. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and one and in the last 365 days eight hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 79 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.32 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9435° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2121° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km N of Isabela, 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 2020-01-06 07:54:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-06 08:20:12 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 170 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7633 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 283 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 pr2020006003 Id of event.
Event Code 2020006003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020006003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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