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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0136S, -66.7686WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us700071kr. Event ids that are associated: us700071kr. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 10:17:07 / January 17, 2020 @ 10:17 am. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7686 West, latitude 18.0136 North, depth = 10 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:17:07 / 6:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Bayamón, Sabana Seca. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 0 km S of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7686° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0136° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km S of Magas Arriba, 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 2020-01-17 10:17:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-17 10:24:28 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 138 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 0.001 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us700071kr Id of event.
Event Code 700071kr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700071kr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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