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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Tallaboa Alta in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9808S, -66.715WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Tallaboa Alta in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.715 West, latitude 17.9808 North, depth = 13 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/01/20 / 2020-01-31 00:23:45 / January 31, 2020 @ 12:23 am. Id of earthquake: pr2020031000. Event ids that are associated: us60007kx7, pr2020031000. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:23:45 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Lorenzo, Cataño, Levittown.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-six, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-nine and in the last 365 days nine hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 0 km S of Tallaboa Alta, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.715° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9808° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km S of Tallaboa Alta, 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 00:23:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-31 00:50:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 44 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.508 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 201 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 0.1252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020031000 Id of event.
Event Code 2020031000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007kx7,pr2020031000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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