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Minor earthquake, 3.76 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.76 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8486 West, latitude 17.9206 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 01:02:13 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020034007. Event ids that are associated: us60007n4x, pr2020034007. Global time and date of event 03/02/20 / 2020-02-03 05:02:13 / February 3, 2020 @ 5:02 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria, Dorado (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-nine, in the past 30 days nine hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.76 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8486° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9206° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km SSE of Guanica, 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	2020-02-03 05:02:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-03 05:24:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	10	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.076	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	221	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0625	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	213	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	pr2020034007	Id of event.
Event Code	2020034007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007n4x,pr2020034007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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