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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9381S, -66.7161WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:00:18 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/05/20 / 2020-05-03 20:00:18 / May 3, 2020 @ 8:00 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700099fe, pr2020124010. Id of event: pr2020124010. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7161 West, latitude 17.9381 North, depth = 6 km.

The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Lorenzo, Cataño, Levittown (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7161° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9381° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km S 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 2020-05-03 20:00:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-03 20:34:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 35 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.581 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 213 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 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 pr2020124010 Id of event.
Event Code 2020124010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700099fe,pr2020124010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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