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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9844S, -66.8103WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: usa0006c4t. Id of event: usa0006c4t. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 05:09:08 / January 9, 2020 @ 5:09 am. Exact location, longitude -66.8103° West, latitude 17.9844° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:09:08 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Sabana Seca, Aguas Buenas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight hundred and sixty-two, in the last 10 days one thousand and fifty-five, in the past 30 days one thousand and ninety-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8103° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9844° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SE of Indios, 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 2020-01-09 05:09:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-05 10:13:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 183 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 0.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 usa0006c4t Id of event.
Event Code a0006c4t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0006c4t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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