Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 23:50:05 / January 20, 2020 @ 11:50 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:50:05 / 7:50 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2020020017. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007bqw, pr2020020017. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8526 West, latitude 17.8395 North, depth = 6 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guayama, Corozal, Cayey (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8526° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8395° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2020-01-20 23:50:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-22 07:08:55	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	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	0.1382	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	256	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	pr2020020017	Id of event.
Event Code	2020020017	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007bqw,pr2020020017,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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