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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/11/20 / 2020-11-22 11:28:12 / November 22, 2020 @ 11:28 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.8471° West, latitude 17.9328° North, depth = 16 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:28:12 / 11:28 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020327008. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000crg6, pr2020327008.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Patillas, Ingenio, Aguas Buenas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days two thousand, eight hundred and four 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 6 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8471° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9328° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SE of Maria Antonia, 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	2020-11-22 11:28:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-22 12:00:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	12	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.124	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	238	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0531	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	208	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	pr2020327008	Id of event.
Event Code	2020327008	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000crg6,pr2020327008,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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