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Minor earthquake: M3.59 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0375S, -67.8345WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) was reported 66 kilometers (41 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/05/20 / 2020-05-08 12:07:39 / May 8, 2020 @ 12:07 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 19 km (12 miles). Exact location of event, depth 19 km, -67.8345° West, 19.0375° North. The temblor was picked up at 07:07:39 / 7:07 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2020129006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020129006, us70009cbq.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 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 five, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.59 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.8345° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NW of San Antonio, 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 2020-05-08 12:07:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-08 13:10:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 198 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7435 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 315 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 pr2020129006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020129006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020129006,us70009cbq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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