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Minor earthquake, 3.21 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9363S, -66.8063WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020358019. Unique identifier: pr2020358019. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:45:29 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.8063° West, latitude 17.9363° North, depth = 9 km. Global time and date of event 23/12/20 / 2020-12-23 19:45:29 / December 23, 2020 @ 7:45 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 9 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arroyo, Pájaros, San Antonio (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 6 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8063° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km SSE of Indios, 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 2020-12-23 19:45:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-23 20:01:26 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 159 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2266 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 pr2020358019 Id of event.
Event Code 2020358019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020358019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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