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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.977S, -66.7368WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7368 West, latitude 17.977 North, depth = 8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020031001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020031001. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/01/20 / 2020-01-31 01:55:09 / January 31, 2020 @ 1:55 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 21:55:09 / 9:55 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayamón, Sabana Seca, Patillas.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 2 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7368° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.977° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km 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 2020-01-31 01:55:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 02:28:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 130 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1424 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 pr2020031001 Id of event.
Event Code 2020031001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020031001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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