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Minor earthquake 3.56 mag, 16 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.56 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.8606° West, latitude 17.9085° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 01:59:27 / January 26, 2020 @ 1:59 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007g4q, pr2020026000. Id of event: pr2020026000. The 3.56-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:59:27 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 28 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pájaros, Arroyo, San Antonio (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and one, in the past 30 days seven hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days eight hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.56 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8606° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9085° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km 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	2020-01-26 01:59:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-26 02:43:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	12	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.721	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	198	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	0.0691	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	217	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	pr2020026000	Id of event.
Event Code	2020026000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007g4q,pr2020026000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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