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Minor earthquake 3.37 mag, 1 km S of Lajas, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0138S, -67.0723WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Lajas in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2020053006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020053006, us70007uly. The temblor was detected at 23:02:22 / 11:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.0723 West, latitude 18.0138 North, depth = 16 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/02/20 / 2020-02-22 03:02:22 / February 22, 2020 @ 3:02 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salinas, Morovis, Manatí (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km S of Lajas, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.37 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0723° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0138° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km S of Lajas, 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 2020-02-22 03:02:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-22 03:22:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 175 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 0.038 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 pr2020053006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020053006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020053006,us70007uly, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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