Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.71 mag has occurred near Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0016S, -66.7346WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 01:28:08 / 1:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.7346° West, 18.0016° North, depth 15 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020021004. Event ids that are associated: us60007bw7, pr2020021004. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 05:28:08 / January 21, 2020 @ 5:28 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15 km (9 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trujillo Alto, Gurabo, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

Did you feel anything?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km SSE of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2020 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.71 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7346° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0016° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSE of Santo Domingo, 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 2020-01-21 05:28:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 05:45:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 216 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1348 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 180 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 pr2020021004 Id of event.
Event Code 2020021004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007bw7,pr2020021004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply