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Minor earthquake 3.63 mag, 2 km SSE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9941S, -66.7623WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7623 West, latitude 17.9941 North, depth = 13 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2020206000. Event ids that are associated: us6000b33b, pr2020206000. The 3.63-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:13:25 / 12:13 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/07/20 / 2020-07-24 00:13:25 / July 24, 2020 @ 12:13 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cataño, Caguas, Guaynabo.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 2 km SSE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.63 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7623° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9941° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km SSE of Magas Arriba, 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 2020-07-24 00:13:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-24 00:54:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 43 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 224 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1184 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 pr2020206000 Id of event.
Event Code 2020206000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b33b,pr2020206000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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