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Minor earthquake, 3.34 mag strikes near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1786S, -67.2381WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2381 West, latitude 19.1786 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2020345003. Event ids that are associated: pr2020345003. The temblor was detected at 03:15:40 / 3:15 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/12/20 / 2020-12-10 03:15:40 / December 10, 2020 @ 3:15 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabela (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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 fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 77 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.34 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2381° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1786° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77 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 2020-12-10 03:15:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-10 03:52:26 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 172 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7223 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248 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 pr2020345003 Id of event.
Event Code 2020345003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020345003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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