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Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0158S, -66.7381WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7381 West, latitude 18.0158 North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020018046. Unique identifier: pr2020018046. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 05:07:56 / 5:07 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/01/20 / 2020-01-18 09:07:56 / January 18, 2020 @ 9:07 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Patillas, Guaynabo (min 5000 pop). Close 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 one hundred and fifty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and thirty-eight, in the past 30 days seven hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km NW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7381° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0158° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NW 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 09:07:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 09:17:04 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 151 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 pr2020018046 Id of event.
Event Code 2020018046 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020018046, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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