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Minor earthquake 3.35 mag, 12 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.887S, -66.7596WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020007096. Unique identifier: pr2020007096. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7596 West, latitude 17.887 North, depth = 4 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.35-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:24:51 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 10:24:51 / January 7, 2020 @ 10:24 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dorado, Candelaria, Toa Baja (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 12 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.35 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7596° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.887° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SSW 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 10:24:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-09 19:12:01 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 173 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2186 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 231 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 pr2020007096 Id of event.
Event Code 2020007096 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020007096, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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