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Minor earthquake, 3.53 mag was detected near Indios in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8136 West, latitude 17.9141 North, depth = 7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/02/20 / 2020-02-29 17:39:46 / February 29, 2020 @ 5:39 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:39:46 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020060029. Event ids that are associated: us6000870v, pr2020060029.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dorado, Toa Baja, Campanilla (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 six, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventeen, in the past 30 days three hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.53 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8136° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9141° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km S of Indios, 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	2020-02-29 17:39:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-29 18:22:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	19	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.38	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	200	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0896	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	214	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	pr2020060029	Id of event.
Event Code	2020060029	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000870v,pr2020060029,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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