Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/01/20 / 2020-01-02 06:15:27 / January 2, 2020 @ 6:15 am. Id of earthquake: usa0006bgm. Event ids that are associated: usa0006bgm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:15:27 / 1:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.5035 West, latitude 18.8806 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Camuy, San Sebastián, Añasco (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (39 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.5035° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8806° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km NW of San Antonio, 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	2020-01-02 06:15:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-31 06:28:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	188	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	0.554	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 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	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	usa0006bgm	Id of event.
Event Code	a0006bgm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usa0006bgm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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