Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 03:49:52 / January 27, 2020 @ 3:49 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2020027020. Event ids that are associated: us60007gxh, pr2020027020. The temblor was picked up at 23:49:52 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 17 km (11 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.7981 West, latitude 17.9906 North, depth = 17 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ingenio, Arroyo, Candelaria Arenas. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 1 km SW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7981° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9906° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km SW of Santo Domingo, 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	2020-01-27 03:49:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-29 03:53:46	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	2	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	139	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0826	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	181	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	pr2020027020	Id of event.
Event Code	2020027020	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007gxh,pr2020027020,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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