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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.977S, -66.805WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The temblor was picked up at 14:06:24 / 2:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.805 West, latitude 17.977 North, depth = 12 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 18:06:24 / January 9, 2020 @ 6:06 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006x4i, pr2020009023. Unique identifier: pr2020009023.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.977° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2020-01-09 18:06:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-09 18:34:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 200 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0742 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 pr2020009023 Id of event.
Event Code 2020009023 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006x4i,pr2020009023, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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