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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 00:16:48 / January 28, 2020 @ 12:16 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.99 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007htk. Unique identifier: us60007htk. Exact location of event, longitude -66.6865 West, latitude 17.9329 North, depth = 12.99 km. The temblor was detected at 20:16:48 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juncos, Yabucoa, Trujillo Alto.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-three, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty-two and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.6865° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9329° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.99 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km SSE 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 00:16:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-28 00:25:36	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	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.139	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	235	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	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82	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	us60007htk	Id of event.
Event Code	60007htk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007htk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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