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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8445 West, latitude 17.8904 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 03:28:41 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700071iy. Id of event: us700071iy. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 07:28:41 / January 17, 2020 @ 7:28 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arroyo, Ceiba, Vega Alta (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 fourty-three, in the last 10 days four hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days five hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8445° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8904° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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	2020-01-17 07:28:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-17 07:35:24	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	0.14	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 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	us700071iy	Id of event.
Event Code	700071iy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700071iy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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