Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Event id: us700070rd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700070rd. The temblor was detected at 03:16:45 / 3:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 07:16:45 / January 16, 2020 @ 7:16 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.7773 West, latitude 18.0023 North, depth = 10 km.

Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Bayamón, Sabana Seca. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-four, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-five 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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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: 1 km SSW of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7773° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0023° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km SSW of Magas Arriba, 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	2020-01-16 07:16:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-16 07:37:14	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	158	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	0.012	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	151	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	us700070rd	Id of event.
Event Code	700070rd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700070rd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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