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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9338S, -66.878WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:33:21 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019363008. Unique identifier: pr2019363008. Exact location of event, longitude -66.878 West, latitude 17.9338 North, depth = 6 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/12/19 / 2019-12-29 01:33:21 / December 29, 2019 @ 1:33 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Baja, Comerío, Corozal. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.878° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE of Guanica, 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 2019-12-29 01:33:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-29 06:33:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 22 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 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 136 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 pr2019363008 Id of event.
Event Code 2019363008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019363008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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