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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag strikes near Penuelas in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9936S, -66.7585WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Penuelas in Puerto Rico. The 3.29-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:21:08 / 5:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14 km (9 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000719c, pr2020016022. Unique identifier: pr2020016022. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7585 West, latitude 17.9936 North, depth = 14 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 21:21:08 / January 16, 2020 @ 9:21 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days four hundred and four, in the past 30 days five hundred and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 2 km SSW of Penuelas, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7585° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9936° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SSW of Penuelas, 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 21:21:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 22:40:31 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 4.8 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 167 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 0.1221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 pr2020016022 Id of event.
Event Code 2020016022 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000719c,pr2020016022, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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