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Minor earthquake, 3.46 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8393S, -66.8796WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 23:11:36 / March 25, 2020 @ 11:11 pm. The 3.46-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:11:36 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8796 West, latitude 17.8393 North, depth = 12 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020085033. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008g4l, pr2020085033.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guayama, Corozal, Cayey (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days ninety-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days one thousand, six hundred and fourty 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.46 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8796° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8393° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km 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 2020-03-25 23:11:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-25 23:47:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.639 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 184 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 255 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 pr2020085033 Id of event.
Event Code 2020085033 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008g4l,pr2020085033, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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