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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 15 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8538S, -66.8232WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8232 West, latitude 17.8538 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70007lg1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007lg1. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 08:54:01 / February 8, 2020 @ 8:54 am UTC/GMT. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:54:01 / 4:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio, Pájaros, Toa Alta. The epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 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: 15 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8232° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SE 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 08:54:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-08 08:58:20 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 222 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 0.19 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 us70007lg1 Id of event.
Event Code 70007lg1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007lg1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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