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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8478S, -66.8396WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:02:38 / 5:02 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8396 West, latitude 17.8478 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us6000d2ek. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000d2ek. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 05:02:38 / December 24, 2020 @ 5:02 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arroyo, Vega Alta, Vega Baja.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 15 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8396° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8478° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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 2020-12-24 05:02:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-24 05:09:01 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 188 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 0.177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us6000d2ek Id of event.
Event Code 6000d2ek An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d2ek, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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