Minor earthquake: M3.02 quake has struck near Guayanilla in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) strikes 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). The 3.02-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:52:18 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7955 West, latitude 18.0148 North, depth = 13 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020058006. Event ids that are associated: pr2020058006. Global time and date of event 27/02/20 / 2020-02-27 04:52:18 / February 27, 2020 @ 4:52 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 19 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguas Buenas, Arroyo, Ingenio (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days one hundred and eight, in the past 30 days four hundred and seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.02 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7955° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0148° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0km SW of Guayanilla, 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	2020-02-27 04:52:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-27 05:05:54	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	140	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0926	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	pr2020058006	Id of event.
Event Code	2020058006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020058006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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