Minor earthquake: M3.18 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 00:48:07 / January 17, 2020 @ 12:48 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -66.8665° West, latitude 17.7771° North, depth = 6 km. The temblor was reported at 20:48:07 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020017024. Event ids that are associated: us700071e4, pr2020017024.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hatillo, Arecibo, Camuy. Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and ninety-two, in the last 10 days five hundred and seventy-seven, in the past 30 days six hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eight 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8665° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7771° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km SSE 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 00:48:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-21 16:19:30	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	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	156	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	0.1984	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	246	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	pr2020017024	Id of event.
Event Code	2020017024	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700071e4,pr2020017024,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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