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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 0 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9885S, -66.7142WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:59:05 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009mwq. Unique identifier: us70009mwq. Exact location of earthquake, -66.7142° West, 17.9885° North, depth 11.72 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.72 km (7 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 23:59:05 / May 21, 2020 @ 11:59 pm.

Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maunabo, Trujillo Alto, Gurabo (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fifty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days two thousand and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 0 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7142° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.72 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 23:59:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-22 00:17:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.9 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 215 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.042 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70009mwq Id of event.
Event Code 70009mwq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009mwq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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