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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Palomas in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Palomas in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 21:00:05 / 9:00 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 01:00:05 / January 12, 2020 @ 1:00 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8541 West, latitude 17.9835 North, depth = 5 km. Event id: us70006ykp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006ykp. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Bayamón, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop).

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

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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: 3 km SSE of Palomas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8541° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9835° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km SSE of Palomas, 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	2020-01-12 01:00:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-12 01:12:36	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	234	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	0.025	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	159	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	us70006ykp	Id of event.
Event Code	70006ykp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006ykp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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