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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7286 West, latitude 17.9909 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 04:16:24 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 08:16:24 / May 16, 2020 @ 8:16 am. Unique identifier: us70009hw9. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009hw9.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maunabo, Trujillo Alto, Gurabo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 1 km WSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7286° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9909° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km WSW 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	2020-05-16 08:16:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-16 08:29:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.415	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	235	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.045	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70009hw9	Id of event.
Event Code	70009hw9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009hw9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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