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Minor earthquake, 3.59 mag has occurred near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9263S, -66.8471WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2020359026. Event ids that are associated: us6000d2is, pr2020359026. The temblor was picked up at 09:34:24 / 9:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 12 km, -66.8471° West, 17.9263° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 09:34:24 / December 24, 2020 @ 9:34 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dorado, Campanilla, Toa Baja. Epicenter of the earthquake was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days two thousand, eight hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 7 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.59 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8471° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9263° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km SE 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 09:34:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-24 10:09:30 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 198 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 ,us,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 0.2018 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 pr2020359026 Id of event.
Event Code 2020359026 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d2is,pr2020359026, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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