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Minor earthquake 3.38 mag, 1 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

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Earthquake location 17.9668S, -66.74WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/02/20 / 2020-02-01 13:21:33 / February 1, 2020 @ 1:21 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -66.74° West, latitude 17.9668° North, depth = 6 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:21:33 / 9:21 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Event id: pr2020032023. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007m4j, pr2020032023.

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety, in the past 30 days nine hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-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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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.74° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9668° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km 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 2020-02-01 13:21:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-01 14:20:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 179 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 0.1394 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 pr2020032023 Id of event.
Event Code 2020032023 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007m4j,pr2020032023, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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