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Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag was detected near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) was reported 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 01:57:40 / 1:57 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2020115005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020115005. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/04/20 / 2020-04-24 05:57:40 / April 24, 2020 @ 5:57 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -66.4928° West, latitude 19.08° North, depth = 31 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, Toa Alta, Candelaria (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.28 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.4928° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.08° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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	2020-04-24 05:57:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-24 06:18:00	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	166	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.604	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	249	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	pr2020115005	Id of event.
Event Code	2020115005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020115005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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