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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 54 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.9816S, -67.1725WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.1725 West, latitude 18.9816 North, depth = 28 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 28 km (17 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/20 / 2020-11-14 08:01:05 / November 14, 2020 @ 8:01 am. The temblor was detected at 08:01:05 / 8:01 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cevc. Id of event: us7000cevc.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, Arecibo, San Sebastián. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop).

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 four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1725° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9816° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km N 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 2020-11-14 08:01:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-14 08:06:59 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 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 0.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 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 us7000cevc Id of event.
Event Code 7000cevc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cevc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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