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Minor earthquake, 3.82 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9485S, -66.8063WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.82 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 10:17:39 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020025007. Event ids that are associated: us60007fqz, pr2020025007. Global time and date of event 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 14:17:39 / January 25, 2020 @ 2:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8063 West, latitude 17.9485 North, depth = 7 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaynabo, Levittown, Caguas (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8063° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9485° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSE of Guanica, 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 2020-01-25 14:17:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-25 14:55:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 23 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.214 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 236 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 0.0776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 pr2020025007 Id of event.
Event Code 2020025007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007fqz,pr2020025007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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