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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Guayanilla in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 04:20:58 / January 11, 2020 @ 4:20 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8026 West, latitude 18.0478 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:20:58 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006y53. Unique identifier: us70006y53.

Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Patillas, Caguas, Guaynabo (min 5000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km NNW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8026° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0478° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km NNW of Guayanilla, 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	2020-01-11 04:20:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-11 04:32:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.4	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	191	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	0.102	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	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	us70006y53	Id of event.
Event Code	70006y53	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006y53,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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