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Minor earthquake, 3.86 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 07:48:03 / January 23, 2020 @ 7:48 am. The temblor was detected at 03:48:03 / 3:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8388 West, latitude 17.8976 North, depth = 12 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007dmn, pr2020023003. Unique identifier: pr2020023003. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12 km (7 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Patillas, Candelaria Arenas, Aguas Buenas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and fourty-three, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days seven hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8388° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8976° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km 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	2020-01-23 07:48:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-23 08:20:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.941	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	233	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0874	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	237	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	pr2020023003	Id of event.
Event Code	2020023003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007dmn,pr2020023003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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