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Minor earthquake, 3.27 mag has occurred near Pájaros in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.334S, -66.1773WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Pájaros in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62 km (39 miles). Global time and date of event 19/12/20 / 2020-12-19 20:00:19 / December 19, 2020 @ 8:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -66.1773° West, 18.334° North, depth 62 km. The temblor was detected at 20:00:19 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020354028. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020354028.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (10 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quebradillas, Isabel Segunda, Yauco (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 5 km SE of Pájaros, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1773° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SE of Pájaros, 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 2020-12-19 20:00:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-19 20:17:11 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 165 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3519 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 pr2020354028 Id of event.
Event Code 2020354028 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020354028, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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