Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag has occurred near Guanica in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 22:14:48 / 10:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 02:14:48 / January 16, 2020 @ 2:14 am. Unique identifier: pr2020016001. Ids that are associated to the event: us700070nh, pr2020016001. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8731° West, 17.9258° North, depth 11 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guayama, Cidra, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days four hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 15 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8731° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9258° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2020-01-16 02:14:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-16 03:09:29	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	3.4	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	171	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	0.0497	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	211	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	pr2020016001	Id of event.
Event Code	2020016001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700070nh,pr2020016001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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