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Minor earthquake, 3.39 mag was detected near Palomas in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0031S, -66.8605WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Palomas in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/04/20 / 2020-04-14 05:08:08 / April 14, 2020 @ 5:08 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8605 West, latitude 18.0031 North, depth = 11 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020105006. Event ids that are associated: pr2020105006. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 01:08:08 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria, Campanilla (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ninety-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 1 km SE of Palomas, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.39 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8605° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0031° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SE of Palomas, 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 2020-04-14 05:08:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-14 05:46:32 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 177 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, 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 0.0337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 pr2020105006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020105006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020105006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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