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Minor earthquake 3.51 mag, 78 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1735S, -67.2945WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 29/09/20 / 2020-09-29 03:59:16 / September 29, 2020 @ 3:59 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -67.2945° West, latitude 19.1735° North, depth = 44 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c2e5, pr2020273004. Id of event: pr2020273004. The 3.51-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:59:16 / 3:59 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 78 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.51 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1735° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78 km NNW 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 2020-09-29 03:59:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-29 04:44:24 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 190 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 0.7294 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 239 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 pr2020273004 Id of event.
Event Code 2020273004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c2e5,pr2020273004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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