Minor earthquake: M3.46 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 08:12:06 / 8:12 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 12:12:06 / May 2, 2020 @ 12:12 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2020123015. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020123015. Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -66.6933° West, 17.959° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gurabo, San Lorenzo, Cataño. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and six and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 4 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.46 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.6933° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.959° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km 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 12:12:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-02 17:46:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	185	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1208	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	183	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	pr2020123015	Id of event.
Event Code	2020123015	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020123015,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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