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Minor earthquake, 3.52 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2020214002. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000b855, pr2020214002. The 3.52-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:07:58 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.6841 West, latitude 17.9115 North, depth = 31 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/08/20 / 2020-08-01 20:07:58 / August 1, 2020 @ 8:07 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maunabo, San Lorenzo, Levittown (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 9 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.52 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.6841° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9115° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km SSE 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	2020-08-01 20:07:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-01 20:35:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.832	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	195	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	0.1526	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	196	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	pr2020214002	Id of event.
Event Code	2020214002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000b855,pr2020214002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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