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Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0061S, -67.6285WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) strikes 79 kilometers (49 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 07:54:02 / 7:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81 km (50 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020189016. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ajd2, pr2020189016. Exact location of event, longitude -67.6285 West, latitude 19.0061 North, depth = 81 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/07/20 / 2020-07-07 07:54:02 / July 7, 2020 @ 7:54 am.

Event epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 79 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.32 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6285° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0061° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km NW of San Antonio, 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 2020-07-07 07:54:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-18 02:35:35 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 170 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 pr2020189016 Id of event.
Event Code 2020189016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ajd2,pr2020189016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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