Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 01:31:16 / January 13, 2020 @ 1:31 am. The temblor was picked up at 21:31:16 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.6718 West, latitude 17.9332 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: usa000609r. Unique identifier: usa000609r.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rincón, Guaynabo, Sabana Seca.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five hundred and sixty-four, in the last 10 days eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the past 30 days nine hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days nine hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km SE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.6718° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9332° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SE 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	2020-01-13 01:31:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-31 02:36:34	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	121	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	0.044	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	201	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	usa000609r	Id of event.
Event Code	a000609r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usa000609r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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