Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag was detected near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/02/20 / 2020-02-02 11:41:17 / February 2, 2020 @ 11:41 am. Event id: pr2020033017. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020033017, us60007mqp. The temblor was picked up at 07:41:17 / 7:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.0556 West, latitude 18.0033 North, depth = 6 km.

The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Morovis, Manatí, Orocovis (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-nine, in the past 30 days nine hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 3 km NW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Arecibo Barceloneta La Parguera Manatí Mayaguez Morovis Orocovis Ponce Puerto Rico Yauco

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.06 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0556° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0033° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km NW of La Parguera, 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	2020-02-02 11:41:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-02 12:08:51	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	144	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,us,	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	0.0541	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	175	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	pr2020033017	Id of event.
Event Code	2020033017	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020033017,us60007mqp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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