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Minor earthquake, 3.61 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.7728S, -66.8566WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.61 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 10:17:17 / February 8, 2020 @ 10:17 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8566 West, latitude 17.7728 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.61-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:17:17 / 6:17 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020039024. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007lh8, pr2020039024.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corozal, Comerío, Isabela (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-eight, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 30 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.61 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8566° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7728° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km 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 2020-02-08 10:17:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-08 11:16:34 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 2.074 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 200 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2036 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 246 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 pr2020039024 Id of event.
Event Code 2020039024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007lh8,pr2020039024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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