Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, Puerto Rico region

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8491° West, 17.8192° North, depth 2.17 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/20 / 2020-02-13 01:16:42 / February 13, 2020 @ 1:16 am. Id of earthquake: us70007p43. Event ids that are associated: us70007p43. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.17 km (1 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:16:42 / 1:16 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Vega Alta, Arroyo (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 eighteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-two, in the past 30 days seven hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Puerto Rico region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8491° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8192° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Puerto Rico region	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 01:16:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-13 01:33:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	237	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	0.226	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	110	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70007p43	Id of event.
Event Code	70007p43	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007p43,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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