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Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.37 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us700071jy. Unique identifier: us700071jy. Global time and date of event 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 09:02:37 / January 17, 2020 @ 9:02 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 05:02:37 / 5:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9475 West, latitude 17.9407 North, depth = 10.37 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Alta, Comerío, Vega Baja (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days four hundred and nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 5 km SW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.9475° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9407° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km SW of Guanica, 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 09:02:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-17 09:09:01	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	0.096	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	182	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	us700071jy	Id of event.
Event Code	700071jy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700071jy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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