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Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag has occurred near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9653S, -66.749WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 15:09:40 / January 20, 2020 @ 3:09 pm. The temblor was picked up at 11:09:40 / 11:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020020011. Unique identifier: pr2020020011. Exact location, longitude -66.749° West, latitude 17.9653° North, depth = 13 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaynabo, Caguas, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days six hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.749° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9653° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW 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 2020-01-20 15:09:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-20 16:52:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 154 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1306 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 pr2020020011 Id of event.
Event Code 2020020011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020020011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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