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Minor earthquake, 3.55 mag strikes near Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9911S, -66.758WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/08/20 / 2020-08-06 22:28:50 / August 6, 2020 @ 10:28 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:28:50 / 10:28 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020219003. Event ids that are associated: us6000bacv, pr2020219003. Exact location of event, longitude -66.758 West, latitude 17.9911 North, depth = 13 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cataño, Caguas, Guaynabo. Epicenter of the event was 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 3 km SSE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.758° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9911° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 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 2020-08-06 22:28:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-06 22:53:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 23 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.193 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 206 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1222 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 pr2020219003 Id of event.
Event Code 2020219003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bacv,pr2020219003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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