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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9685S, -66.8356WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8356° West, 17.9685° North, depth 9 km. Global time and date of event 09/07/20 / 2020-07-09 02:51:40 / July 9, 2020 @ 2:51 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020191000. Id of event: pr2020191000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:51:40 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Alta, San Antonio, Guayama (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8356° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km SSW of Indios, 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 2020-07-09 02:51:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-09 03:13:05 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 138 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0441 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 pr2020191000 Id of event.
Event Code 2020191000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020191000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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