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Minor earthquake: M3.11 quake has struck near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9148S, -66.8438WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. The 3.11-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:28:57 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8438 West, latitude 17.9148 North, depth = 11 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/21 / 2021-01-12 00:28:57 / January 12, 2021 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2021012000. Event ids that are associated: pr2021012000.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ceiba, Cidra, Guayama (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, four hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 8 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8438° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9148° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 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 2021-01-12 00:28:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-12 00:45:56 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 149 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0699 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 pr2021012000 Id of event.
Event Code 2021012000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021012000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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