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Minor earthquake: M3.09 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0083S, -67.7756WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 81 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (50 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/20 / 2020-02-16 20:29:42 / February 16, 2020 @ 8:29 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020047034, us70007rfv. Id of event: pr2020047034. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.7756 West, latitude 19.0083 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:29:42 / 3:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days ninety-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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 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: 81 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7756° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0083° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km NW of San Antonio, 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 2020-02-16 20:29:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-16 21:02:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 147 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,us, 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 0.6907 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 318 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 pr2020047034 Id of event.
Event Code 2020047034 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020047034,us70007rfv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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