Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Yauco in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Yauco in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007f8g. Id of event: us60007f8g. The temblor was picked up at 19:24:34 / 7:24 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 23:24:34 / January 24, 2020 @ 11:24 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8137 West, latitude 18.0621 North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguas Buenas, Sabana Seca, Ingenio (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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-seven and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km NE of Yauco, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8137° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0621° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km NE of Yauco, 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 23:24:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-24 23:35:31	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	138	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.047	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us60007f8g	Id of event.
Event Code	60007f8g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007f8g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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