Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 13 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 21:22:00 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000ahkq. Event ids that are associated: us7000ahkq. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/07/20 / 2020-07-03 21:22:00 / July 3, 2020 @ 9:22 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -66.9726° West, 17.8706° North, depth 12.93 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.93 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Manatí, Barceloneta. Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days two hundred and seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.9726° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8706° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.93 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km SSW 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	2020-07-03 21:22:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-03 21:38:42	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	4.6	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	158	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	0.119	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	173	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	us7000ahkq	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ahkq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ahkq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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