Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -66.7436° West, latitude 17.9043° North, depth = 6 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:03:09 / 2:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/03/20 / 2020-03-07 06:03:09 / March 7, 2020 @ 6:03 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2020067009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020067009.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 18 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Candelaria Arenas, Dorado, Candelaria (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days three hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7436° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9043° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km SSW of Tallaboa, 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	2020-03-07 06:03:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-07 06:26:34	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	153	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.153	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	244	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	pr2020067009	Id of event.
Event Code	2020067009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020067009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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