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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0095S, -66.7502WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:18:57 / 7:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.7502° West, 18.0095° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us600079yv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600079yv. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/01/20 / 2020-01-18 11:18:57 / January 18, 2020 @ 11:18 am.

Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gurabo, San Lorenzo, San Juan. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-five, in the past 30 days five hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 2 km ESE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7502° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0095° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km ESE 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 2020-01-18 11:18:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-18 11:33:32 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 2.7 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 211 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 0.019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us600079yv Id of event.
Event Code 600079yv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600079yv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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