Minor earthquake: M3.42 quake has struck near Ponce in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Event id: pr2020134005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009fnx, pr2020134005. Exact location of earthquake, -66.5931° West, 17.9196° North, depth 4 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/05/20 / 2020-05-13 22:59:57 / May 13, 2020 @ 10:59 pm. The temblor was reported at 18:59:57 / 6:59 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rincón, Las Piedras, Aguadilla.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days sixty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days two thousand earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.42 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.5931° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9196° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km SSE of Ponce, 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	2020-05-13 22:59:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-13 23:27:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	19	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.72	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	189	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1239	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	193	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	pr2020134005	Id of event.
Event Code	2020134005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009fnx,pr2020134005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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