Minor earthquake 3.24 mag, 5 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.24-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:18:45 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020015038. Unique identifier: pr2020015038. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.0098 West, latitude 17.9423 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 07:18:45 / January 15, 2020 @ 7:18 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coco, Barranquitas, Manatí (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-three, in the last 10 days five hundred and ten, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0098° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9423° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km SE of La Parguera, 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	2020-01-15 07:18:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-18 14:58:53	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	2.2	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	162	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	0.0438	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226	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	pr2020015038	Id of event.
Event Code	2020015038	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020015038,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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