Minor earthquake: M3.05 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 13:55:26 / May 2, 2020 @ 1:55 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us700098s6, pr2020123038. Unique identifier: pr2020123038. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7425 West, latitude 17.9351 North, depth = 7 km. The 3.05-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:55:26 / 9:55 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7 km (4 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ingenio, Patillas, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days eighty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.05 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7425° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9351° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km 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	2020-05-02 13:55:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-03 20:45:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	143	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	0.1424	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	190	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	pr2020123038	Id of event.
Event Code	2020123038	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700098s6,pr2020123038,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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