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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 2 km ENE of Yauco, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0488S, -66.8257WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Yauco in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:24:48 / 8:24 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 00:24:48 / January 16, 2020 @ 12:24 am. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8257° West, 18.0488° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us700070m6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700070m6.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arroyo, Levittown, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 2 km ENE of Yauco, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8257° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0488° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ENE of Yauco, 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 00:24:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 00:38:45 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 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 168 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 0.033 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us700070m6 Id of event.
Event Code 700070m6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700070m6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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