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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Aguadilla in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.883S, -67.6863WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Aguadilla in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/20 / 2020-12-08 23:45:55 / December 8, 2020 @ 11:45 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000cpap. Unique identifier: us7000cpap. Exact location of earthquake, -67.6863° West, 18.883° North, depth 28.84 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 28.84 km (18 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:45:55 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguada, Rincón, Aguadilla. Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 75 km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6863° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.883° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 km NW of Aguadilla, 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 2020-12-08 23:45:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-09 00:06:03 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 0.684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 us7000cpap Id of event.
Event Code 7000cpap An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cpap, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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