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Minor earthquake 3.04 mag, 13 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9128S, -66.8318WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2020016011. Event ids that are associated: us700070yi, pr2020016011. The temblor was picked up at 10:23:47 / 10:23 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 14:23:47 / January 16, 2020 @ 2:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8318 West, latitude 17.9128 North, depth = 11 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Cidra, Vega Alta (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days four hundred and two, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8318° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km S 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 2020-01-16 14:23:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 15:39:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 142 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0783 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 214 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 pr2020016011 Id of event.
Event Code 2020016011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700070yi,pr2020016011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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