Minor earthquake 2.99 mag, 6 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 22:55:42 / January 24, 2020 @ 10:55 pm. The 2.99-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:55:42 / 6:55 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020024005. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007f7q, pr2020024005. Exact location, longitude -66.7723° West, latitude 17.9556° North, depth = 5 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguas Buenas, Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days seven hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.99 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7723° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9556° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SE of Indios, 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 22:55:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-24 23:34:01	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	138	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1087	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	204	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	pr2020024005	Id of event.
Event Code	2020024005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007f7q,pr2020024005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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