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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9704S, -67.5323WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us60007jub. Event ids that are associated: us60007jub. Global time and date of event 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 06:33:19 / January 30, 2020 @ 6:33 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 01:33:19 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.5323° West, latitude 18.9704° North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moca, Rincón, Aguada (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9704° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km 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 2020-01-30 06:33:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-30 06:41:45 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 5.4 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 168 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 0.639 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us60007jub Id of event.
Event Code 60007jub An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007jub, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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