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Minor earthquake: M3.08 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8943S, -67.707WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -67.707° West, 18.8943° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 00:43:05 / January 29, 2020 @ 12:43 am. Event id: pr2020029008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007ina, pr2020029008. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 19:43:05 / 7:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rincón, Aguadilla.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 76 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.08 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.707° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8943° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km NW of San Antonio, 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 2020-01-29 00:43:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 15:15:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 146 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5584 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 pr2020029008 Id of event.
Event Code 2020029008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007ina,pr2020029008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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