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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9302S, -66.7953WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7953 West, latitude 17.9302 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:57:18 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006vq1. Unique identifier: us70006vq1. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 12:57:18 / January 7, 2020 @ 12:57 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 7 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7953° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9302° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSE of Indios, 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 2020-01-07 12:57:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-07 13:21:43 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 222 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.211 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006vq1 Id of event.
Event Code 70006vq1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006vq1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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