Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 81 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico (50 miles) on Tuesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us60007inl. Unique identifier: us60007inl. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 01:01:27 / January 29, 2020 @ 1:01 am. Exact location of earthquake, -67.6174° West, 19.0421° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 20:01:27 / 8:01 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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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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. 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: 81 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.6174° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0421° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	81km 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	2020-01-29 01:01:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-29 01:08:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	0.746	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	184	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	us60007inl	Id of event.
Event Code	60007inl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007inl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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