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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag was detected near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1091S, -66.9695WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/06/20 / 2020-06-23 17:03:16 / June 23, 2020 @ 5:03 pm. Unique identifier: pr2020175030. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020175030. The 3.09-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:03:16 / 5:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.9695 West, latitude 19.1091 North, depth = 43 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguadilla, Arecibo, Hatillo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 67 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9695° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1091° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km N of Isabela, 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 2020-06-23 17:03:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-23 17:19:06 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 147 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7701 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 292 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 pr2020175030 Id of event.
Event Code 2020175030 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020175030, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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