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Minor earthquake, 3.54 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Event id: pr2020015017. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700070ia, pr2020015017. The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:41:10 / 5:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8623 West, latitude 17.9036 North, depth = 12 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 21:41:10 / January 15, 2020 @ 9:41 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arroyo, San Antonio, Toa Alta (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days three hundred and seventy, in the past 30 days four hundred and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.54 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8623° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9036° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km SSE of Guanica, 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	2020-01-15 21:41:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-15 22:35:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	195	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	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0735	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	219	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	pr2020015017	Id of event.
Event Code	2020015017	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700070ia,pr2020015017,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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