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Minor earthquake, 3.56 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.56 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7393 West, latitude 17.9995 North, depth = 6 km. The temblor was detected at 04:14:48 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2020015002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020015002. Global time and date of event 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 08:14:48 / January 15, 2020 @ 8:14 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Lorenzo, San Juan, Cataño (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 twenty-eight, in the last 10 days three hundred and fifty-two, in the past 30 days four hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-four 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.56 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7393° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9995° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km WNW of Tallaboa, 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 08:14:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-15 08:41:57	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.5	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	196	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1399	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	180	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	pr2020015002	Id of event.
Event Code	2020015002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020015002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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