Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Puerto Rico region

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 12 km, -66.8985° West, 17.9285° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 23:39:51 / January 9, 2020 @ 11:39 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:39:51 / 11:39 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020009112. Unique identifier: pr2020009112. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Naranjito, Vega Alta. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 31 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days two hundred and ten, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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 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: Puerto Rico region.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8985° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9285° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Puerto Rico region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-09 23:39:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-10 13:23:08	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	168	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0504	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	212	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	pr2020009112	Id of event.
Event Code	2020009112	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020009112,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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