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Minor earthquake 3.47 mag, 3 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9973S, -66.7315WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The 3.47-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:22:07 / 9:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7315 West, latitude 17.9973 North, depth = 13 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 13:22:07 / January 7, 2020 @ 1:22 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2020007020. Event ids that are associated: us70006vqe, pr2020007020. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 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), 49 km (30 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 Cataño, Levittown, Caguas (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-nine 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 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 3.47 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7315° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km 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 2020-01-07 13:22:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-07 17:46:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 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 186 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 pr2020007020 Id of event.
Event Code 2020007020 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006vqe,pr2020007020, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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