Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 1 km NNE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.7645° West, 18.0336° North. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:55:49 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: usa0006bnc. Ids that are associated to the event: usa0006bnc. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 11:55:49 / January 7, 2020 @ 11:55 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Juan, Cataño, Patillas (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine hundred and twelve, in the last 10 days nine hundred and eighty, in the past 30 days nine hundred and ninety-four and in the last 365 days one thousand and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NNE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7645° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0336° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km NNE of Magas Arriba, 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	2020-01-07 11:55:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-02 07:19:20	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	2.994	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	199	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	0.15	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	170	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	usa0006bnc	Id of event.
Event Code	a0006bnc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usa0006bnc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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