Minor earthquake: M3.18 quake has struck near Indios in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 12 km, -66.8176° West, 17.9093° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/03/20 / 2020-03-20 16:44:41 / March 20, 2020 @ 4:44 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:44:41 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020080024. Id of event: pr2020080024.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Alta, Arroyo, Ceiba. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days sixty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and ninety-eight 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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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8176° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9093° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km 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	2020-03-20 16:44:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-20 17:00:23	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	156	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0901	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	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	pr2020080024	Id of event.
Event Code	2020080024	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020080024,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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