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Minor earthquake, 3.11 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8313S, -66.891WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The 3.11-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:11:42 / 8:11 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.891 West, latitude 17.8313 North, depth = 9 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020036000. Id of event: pr2020036000. Global time and date of event 05/02/20 / 2020-02-05 00:11:42 / February 5, 2020 @ 12:11 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manatí, Barceloneta, Isabela (min 5000 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-two, in the past 30 days one thousand and ten and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 15 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.891° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8313° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km 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 2020-02-05 00:11:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-05 00:27:16 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 149 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 ,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 0.1443 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 242 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 pr2020036000 Id of event.
Event Code 2020036000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020036000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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