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Minor earthquake 3.21 mag, 10 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.906S, -66.6728WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location, longitude -66.6728° West, latitude 17.906° North, depth = 4 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020038007. Id of event: pr2020038007. The temblor was detected at 02:12:30 / 2:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/20 / 2020-02-07 06:12:30 / February 7, 2020 @ 6:12 am.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Rincón, Guaynabo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty, in the past 30 days eight hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6728° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.906° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 2020-02-07 06:12:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-07 09:17:41 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 159 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 0.1521 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020038007 Id of event.
Event Code 2020038007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020038007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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