Minor earthquake: M3.26 quake has struck near El Negro in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from El Negro in Puerto Rico on Monday. The temblor was detected at 00:22:57 / 12:22 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020328000. Unique identifier: pr2020328000. Exact location, longitude -65.6508° West, latitude 17.8998° North, depth = 2 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/11/20 / 2020-11-23 00:22:57 / November 23, 2020 @ 12:22 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Candelaria, Sabana Seca, Santa Isabel. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 26 km SE of El Negro, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.26 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.6508° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8998° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km SE of El Negro, 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	2020-11-23 00:22:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-23 00:50:57	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	164	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3129	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	312	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	pr2020328000	Id of event.
Event Code	2020328000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020328000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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