Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Id of earthquake: pr2020034000. Event ids that are associated: us60007n0j, pr2020034000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 03/02/20 / 2020-02-03 00:33:18 / February 3, 2020 @ 12:33 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -66.701° West, 17.9095° North. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:33:18 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gurabo, Maunabo, Cataño (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days nine hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days one thousand and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 8 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.701° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9095° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SSE 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	2020-02-03 00:33:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-03 00:57:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	64	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.946	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	252	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	0.1635	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	211	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	pr2020034000	Id of event.
Event Code	2020034000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007n0j,pr2020034000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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