Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: usa0006bnw. Ids that are associated to the event: usa0006bnw. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 12:52:34 / January 7, 2020 @ 12:52 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -66.7219° West, 17.9509° North, depth 10 km. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:52:34 / 8:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Juan, Gurabo, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 4 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7219° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9509° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km S 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	2020-01-07 12:52:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-02 11:13:57	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	222	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	0.143	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	202	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	usa0006bnw	Id of event.
Event Code	a0006bnw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,usa0006bnw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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