Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag has occurred near Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 01:22:26 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2020013050. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020013050. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles). Global time and date of event 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 05:22:26 / January 13, 2020 @ 5:22 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -66.7658° West, latitude 17.9828° North, depth = 14 km.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ingenio, Aguas Buenas, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and seventy, in the last 10 days four hundred and fourty-six, in the past 30 days five hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7658° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9828° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km S 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	2020-01-13 05:22:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-16 23:34:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	122	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	0.1137	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	189	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2020013050	Id of event.
Event Code	2020013050	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020013050,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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