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Minor earthquake 3.34 mag, 2 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.979S, -66.7558WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Event id: pr2020028001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007htd, pr2020028001. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 00:04:29 / January 28, 2020 @ 12:04 am UTC/GMT. The 3.34-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:04:29 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.7558° West, 17.979° North, depth 12 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas. Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty-nine and in the last 365 days nine hundred and one 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.

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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: 2 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.34 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7558° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.979° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SW 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 2020-01-28 00:04:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-28 01:18:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 172 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 0.1235 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 pr2020028001 Id of event.
Event Code 2020028001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007htd,pr2020028001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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