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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 04:44:35 / 4:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.7418 West, latitude 17.9803 North, depth = 6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/01/20 / 2020-01-18 08:44:35 / January 18, 2020 @ 8:44 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600079wt, pr2020018004. Id of event: pr2020018004. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (54 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gurabo, San Juan, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days five hundred and sixty-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-three 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7418° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9803° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km S of Tallaboa, 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 08:44:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-18 09:20:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	The total number of felt reports
CDI	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	227	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1375	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	192	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	pr2020018004	Id of event.
Event Code	2020018004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600079wt,pr2020018004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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