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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Penuelas in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Penuelas in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 04:41:23 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 08:41:23 / January 16, 2020 @ 8:41 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us700070sf. Unique identifier: us700070sf. Exact location, longitude -66.7188° West, latitude 18.0367° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trujillo Alto, Gurabo, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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. 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 fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km S of Penuelas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7188° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0367° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km S of Penuelas, 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 08:41:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-16 08:51:35	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	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	0.019	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	us700070sf	Id of event.
Event Code	700070sf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700070sf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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