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Minor earthquake 3.72 mag, 49 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1108S, -67.798WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Id of earthquake: pr2020124000. Event ids that are associated: us7000994f, pr2020124000. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.798 West, latitude 19.1108 North, depth = 27 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/05/20 / 2020-05-03 01:17:35 / May 3, 2020 @ 1:17 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.72-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:17:35 / 8:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 49 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.72 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.798° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1108° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NW of Rincon, 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 2020-05-03 01:17:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-03 03:47:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 214 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 0.7933 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 319 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 pr2020124000 Id of event.
Event Code 2020124000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000994f,pr2020124000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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