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Minor earthquake: M3.57 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Friday. The temblor was reported at 07:36:35 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/06/20 / 2020-06-12 07:36:35 / June 12, 2020 @ 7:36 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.6616 West, latitude 17.925 North, depth = 5 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020164005. Event ids that are associated: us6000aahd, pr2020164005.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Juncos, San Juan, Trujillo Alto (min 5000 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 four, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-four and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km SE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.57 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.6616° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.925° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km SE 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	2020-06-12 07:36:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-12 07:58:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.274	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	199	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1302	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	192	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	pr2020164005	Id of event.
Event Code	2020164005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000aahd,pr2020164005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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