Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 00:04:31 / January 11, 2020 @ 12:04 am. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:04:31 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: usa0005yuf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: usa0005yuf. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8455° West, 17.9917° North, depth 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria, Dorado (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six hundred and ninety-five, in the last 10 days nine hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days nine hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8455° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9917° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km W of Indios, 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	2020-01-11 00:04:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-01 04:19:16	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	168	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	0.036	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162	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	usa0005yuf	Id of event.
Event Code	a0005yuf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usa0005yuf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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