Minor earthquake, 3.59 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2020142018. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009mwq, pr2020142018. Global time and date of event 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 23:59:06 / May 21, 2020 @ 11:59 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 19:59:06 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -66.7396° West, 18.0116° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Lorenzo, San Juan, Cataño.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days two thousand and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.59 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7396° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0116° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0km 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	2020-05-21 23:59:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-22 00:23:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.095	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	203	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.137	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	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	pr2020142018	Id of event.
Event Code	2020142018	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009mwq,pr2020142018,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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