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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9389S, -66.8467WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 13.94 km, -66.8467° West, 17.9389° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 10:47:26 / January 16, 2020 @ 10:47 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 06:47:26 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us700070vb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700070vb. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.94 km (9 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Baja, Arroyo, Pájaros (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-seven, in the past 30 days four hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8467° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9389° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSW 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 10:47:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 13:55:53 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 178 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 0.047 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 us700070vb Id of event.
Event Code 700070vb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700070vb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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