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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 1 km NE of Yauco, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9783S, -66.8743WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Yauco in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 00:49:42 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/02/20 / 2020-02-12 04:49:42 / February 12, 2020 @ 4:49 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2020043004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007nle, pr2020043004. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8743 West, latitude 17.9783 North, depth = 11 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana Seca, Aguas Buenas, Arroyo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy, in the past 30 days seven hundred and fourty-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and thirteen 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 1 km NE of Yauco, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8743° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9783° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NE of Yauco, 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 2020-02-12 04:49:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-12 05:51:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 105 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.137 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 280 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0059 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 pr2020043004 Id of event.
Event Code 2020043004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007nle,pr2020043004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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