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Minor earthquake 3.28 mag, 2 km S of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 02:46:45 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8946 West, latitude 17.9835 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 16/04/20 / 2020-04-16 06:46:45 / April 16, 2020 @ 6:46 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2020107004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008xdi, pr2020107004. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Alta, San Antonio, Cidra (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eighty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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 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: 2 km S of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.28 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8946° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9835° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km S of Maria Antonia, 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	2020-04-16 06:46:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-16 07:23:14	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	2.2	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	166	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0175	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	pr2020107004	Id of event.
Event Code	2020107004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008xdi,pr2020107004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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