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Minor earthquake, 3.63 mag strikes near Suárez in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.5745S, -65.5505WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 130 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico (81 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/09/20 / 2020-09-06 10:03:20 / September 6, 2020 @ 10:03 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.5505 West, latitude 19.5745 North, depth = 43 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:03:20 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bivu, pr2020250004. Id of event: pr2020250004.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 130 km NNE of Suárez, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.63 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.5505° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130 km NNE of Suárez, 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 2020-09-06 10:03:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-06 11:05:01 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 203 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.4631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 303 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 pr2020250004 Id of event.
Event Code 2020250004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bivu,pr2020250004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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