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Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag has occurred near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.6231S, -67.3573WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -67.3573° West, 17.6231° North, depth 8 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/19 / 2019-12-23 16:44:30 / December 23, 2019 @ 4:44 pm. The temblor was reported at 12:44:30 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Event id: pr2019357029. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019357029.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Marías, Añasco, Guayanilla. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 43 km SSW of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3573° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.6231° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SSW of Pole Ojea, 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 2019-12-23 16:44:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-23 17:05:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 156 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 282 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 pr2019357029 Id of event.
Event Code 2019357029 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019357029, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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