Minor earthquake 3.51 mag, 6 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020123012. Unique identifier: pr2020123012. The temblor was picked up at 07:17:16 / 7:17 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 11:17:16 / May 2, 2020 @ 11:17 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -66.6995° West, latitude 17.9405° North, depth = 6 km.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, San Lorenzo, Levittown (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 sixteen, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.51 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.6995° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9405° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SSE 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	2020-05-02 11:17:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-02 14:54:56	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	190	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1384	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	189	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2020123012	Id of event.
Event Code	2020123012	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020123012,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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