Minor earthquake, 3.35 mag was detected near Ponce in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico on Friday. Global time and date of event 12/06/20 / 2020-06-12 08:16:35 / June 12, 2020 @ 8:16 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 08:16:35 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000aai7, pr2020164006. Id of event: pr2020164006. Exact location, longitude -66.5828° West, latitude 17.922° North, depth = 6 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Las Piedras, Isabela (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 twenty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. 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: 10 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.35 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.5828° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.922° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km 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	2020-06-12 08:16:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-12 08:37:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	173	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	0.123	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	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	pr2020164006	Id of event.
Event Code	2020164006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000aai7,pr2020164006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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