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Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag strikes near Guánica in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.25-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:01:54 / 6:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.9431° West, 17.9283° North, depth 13 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/06/20 / 2020-06-13 06:01:54 / June 13, 2020 @ 6:01 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ab5b, pr2020165004. Id of event: pr2020165004.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Corozal, Aibonito (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

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

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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. 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: 6 km SW of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.9431° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9283° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km SW of Guánica, 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	2020-06-13 06:01:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-13 08:19:23	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.6	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	164	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	0.0792	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	215	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	pr2020165004	Id of event.
Event Code	2020165004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ab5b,pr2020165004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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