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Minor earthquake 3.64 mag, 27 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8398S, -66.8581WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.64 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -66.8581° West, latitude 17.8398° North, depth = 11 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020035029. Event ids that are associated: us60007pfi, pr2020035029. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 15:12:11 / February 4, 2020 @ 3:12 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). The 3.64-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:12:11 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Alta, Vega Baja, Naranjito (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days nine hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days one thousand and ninety-seven 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.64 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8581° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8398° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km 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 2020-02-04 15:12:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-04 15:51:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 22 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.244 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 215 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1369 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237 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 pr2020035029 Id of event.
Event Code 2020035029 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007pfi,pr2020035029, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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