Minor earthquake: M3.31 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 01:03:51 / 1:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 14 km, -66.8475° West, 17.8855° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 05:03:51 / February 8, 2020 @ 5:03 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020039009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020039009.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Vega Alta, Cidra (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 28 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-eight, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8475° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8855° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km SSE of Guanica, 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	2020-02-08 05:03:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-08 05:20:44	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	169	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	,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	0.095	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	225	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	pr2020039009	Id of event.
Event Code	2020039009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020039009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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