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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.0513S, -66.7998WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 102 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico (63 miles) on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 00:57:04 / January 14, 2020 @ 12:57 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: usa0006cra. Id of event: usa0006cra. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:57:04 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.7998° West, latitude 17.0513° North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and fifty-three, in the last 10 days eight hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days nine hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 102 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7998° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.0513° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km S 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 2020-01-14 00:57:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-01 05:15:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.921 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 325 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 usa0006cra Id of event.
Event Code a0006cra An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0006cra, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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