Minor earthquake 3.15 mag, 2 km ESE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600079yv, pr2020018006. Id of event: pr2020018006. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/01/20 / 2020-01-18 11:18:57 / January 18, 2020 @ 11:18 am. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:18:57 / 7:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.7465° West, 17.9971° North, depth 13 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown. Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days five hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 2 km ESE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7465° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9971° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km ESE 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	2020-01-18 11:18:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-18 11:47:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	153	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	,us,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	0.1345	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	183	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	pr2020018006	Id of event.
Event Code	2020018006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600079yv,pr2020018006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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