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Minor earthquake: M3.29 quake has struck near Luquillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.0226S, -65.3853WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Luquillo in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/11/20 / 2020-11-08 09:51:35 / November 8, 2020 @ 9:51 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). The 3.29-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:51:35 / 9:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3853 West, latitude 19.0226 North, depth = 25 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020313000. Unique identifier: pr2020313000.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Luquillo. Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days two hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 79 km NNE of Luquillo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3853° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0226° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km NNE of Luquillo, 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 2020-11-08 09:51:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-08 10:30:29 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 167 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9951 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 314 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 pr2020313000 Id of event.
Event Code 2020313000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020313000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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