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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1986S, -67.6057WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 94 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (58 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.6057 West, latitude 19.1986 North, depth = 29.93 km. Id of earthquake: us6000d5mf. Event ids that are associated: us6000d5mf. Global time and date of event 04/01/21 / 2021-01-04 23:46:24 / January 4, 2021 @ 11:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 23:46:24 / 11:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.93 km (19 miles).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 94 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6057° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94 km NW 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 2021-01-04 23:46:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-05 00:07:32 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 222 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 0.865 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 us6000d5mf Id of event.
Event Code 6000d5mf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d5mf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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