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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2020013014. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020013014. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:43:26 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 16:43:26 / January 13, 2020 @ 4:43 pm. Exact location, longitude -66.6915° West, latitude 17.9148° North, depth = 6 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 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), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Lorenzo, Levittown, Guaynabo. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.6915° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9148° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km 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	2020-01-13 16:43:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-13 17:56:38	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	188	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1538	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	206	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	pr2020013014	Id of event.
Event Code	2020013014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020013014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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