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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2020051004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007td7, pr2020051004. Exact location of event, depth 11 km, -66.8998° West, 17.882° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/02/20 / 2020-02-20 03:52:52 / February 20, 2020 @ 3:52 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:52:52 / 11:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cidra, Vega Alta, Guayama.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days ninety, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 12 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8998° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.882° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km 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	2020-02-20 03:52:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-20 04:21:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	18	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.763	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	208	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0953	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	227	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	pr2020051004	Id of event.
Event Code	2020051004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007td7,pr2020051004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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