Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: usa0005yze. Id of event: usa0005yze. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:32:40 / 12:32 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 04:32:40 / January 11, 2020 @ 4:32 am. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -66.7856° West, 17.9123° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas, Patillas. Event epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 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 eighty-seven, in the last 10 days nine hundred and nine, in the past 30 days nine hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7856° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9123° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSE 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 04:32:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-01 03:19:43	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	178	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	0.108	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	208	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	usa0005yze	Id of event.
Event Code	a0005yze	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usa0005yze,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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