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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Penuelas in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0482S, -66.7196WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Penuelas in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was picked up at 14:03:07 / 2:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.7196 West, latitude 18.0482 North, depth = 18.5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: usa0006brf. Unique identifier: usa0006brf. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.5 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 18:03:07 / January 7, 2020 @ 6:03 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Juan, Cataño, Patillas. Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one thousand and eight, in the last 10 days one thousand and ninety-three, in the past 30 days one thousand, one hundred and six and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and eighty-six 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 0 km SSE of Penuelas, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7196° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0482° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km SSE of Penuelas, 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 2020-01-07 18:03:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-05 20:55:05 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 148 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 0.108 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 usa0006brf Id of event.
Event Code a0006brf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0006brf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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