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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag has occurred near Hatillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9506S, -66.8455WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 15/06/20 / 2020-06-15 16:31:42 / June 15, 2020 @ 4:31 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 16:31:42 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8455 West, latitude 18.9506 North, depth = 28 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020167020. Id of event: pr2020167020.

Event epicenter was 55 km (34 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), 69 km (43 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dorado, Vega Alta, Añasco.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days ninety-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8455° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9506° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51 km N of Hatillo, 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 2020-06-15 16:31:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-15 16:59:46 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 171 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5513 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 272 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 pr2020167020 Id of event.
Event Code 2020167020 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020167020, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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