Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Indios in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8327° West, 17.9853° North, depth 15.32 km. The temblor was reported at 16:03:27 / 4:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 16:03:27 / December 24, 2020 @ 4:03 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000d0gl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d0gl. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.32 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguas Buenas, Ingenio, Arroyo. Epicenter of the event was 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days two thousand, nine hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km SW of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8327° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9853° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.32 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km SW 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	2020-12-24 16:03:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-20 21:57:20	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	0.065	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	173	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000d0gl	Id of event.
Event Code	7000d0gl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000d0gl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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