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Minor earthquake, 3.49 mag strikes near San Juan in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.5406S, -66.192WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) was reported 119 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (74 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.192 West, latitude 19.5406 North, depth = 30 km. Event id: pr2020224009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bcg5, pr2020224009. The temblor was picked up at 03:11:18 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/08/20 / 2020-08-11 03:11:18 / August 11, 2020 @ 3:11 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 30 km (19 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 119 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.49 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.192° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5406° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119 km N of San Juan, 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 2020-08-11 03:11:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-19 13:52:11 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 187 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1157 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 269 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 pr2020224009 Id of event.
Event Code 2020224009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bcg5,pr2020224009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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