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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 16 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2269S, -67.3625WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000cpr4. Id of event: us6000cpr4. The temblor was detected at 08:11:17 / 8:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/11/20 / 2020-11-18 08:11:17 / November 18, 2020 @ 8:11 am. Exact location of event, longitude -67.3625 West, latitude 18.2269 North, depth = 27.48 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.48 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jayuya, Arecibo, Peñuelas.

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 seventeen, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 16 km SW of Stella, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3625° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2269° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km SW of Stella, 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 2020-11-18 08:11:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-18 08:16:43 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 168 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 0.207 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us6000cpr4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000cpr4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cpr4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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