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Minor earthquake, 3.48 mag has occurred near Palomas in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.48 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Palomas in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8683° West, 18.0003° North, depth 11 km. Global time and date of event 13/02/20 / 2020-02-13 02:18:08 / February 13, 2020 @ 2:18 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 22:18:08 / 10:18 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70007p4y, pr2020044003. Unique identifier: pr2020044003.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria, Campanilla (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-six, in the past 30 days seven hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and fourty-three 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: 1 km ENE of Palomas, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.48 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8683° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km ENE of Palomas, 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	2020-02-13 02:18:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-13 02:51:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	7	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	188	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	0.0275	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	122	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	pr2020044003	Id of event.
Event Code	2020044003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007p4y,pr2020044003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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