Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 05:33:36 / January 24, 2020 @ 5:33 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:33:36 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.7398 West, latitude 17.9321 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020024001. Event ids that are associated: us60007eg2, pr2020024001.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Sabana Seca, Ingenio (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days three hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days seven hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7398° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9321° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SSW 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	2020-01-24 05:33:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-24 05:55:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	162	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	0.1459	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.37 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	210	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	pr2020024001	Id of event.
Event Code	2020024001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007eg2,pr2020024001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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