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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near La Parguera in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8765S, -67.0571WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -67.0571° West, 17.8765° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/10/20 / 2020-10-11 07:50:01 / October 11, 2020 @ 7:50 am. Event id: us6000c7i5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c7i5. The temblor was picked up at 07:50:01 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Orocovis, Ciales, Coamo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and four and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0571° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8765° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km S of La Parguera, 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 2020-10-11 07:50:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-11 08:11:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 158 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000c7i5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c7i5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c7i5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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