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Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 31, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.912S, -66.8896WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8896 West, latitude 17.912 North, depth = 6 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/12/19 / 2019-12-31 11:03:44 / December 31, 2019 @ 11:03 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006sux, pr2019365005. Unique identifier: pr2019365005. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:03:44 / 7:03 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guayama, Cidra, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8896° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.912° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSE 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 2019-12-31 11:03:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-31 11:39:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 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 185 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.064 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 pr2019365005 Id of event.
Event Code 2019365005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006sux,pr2019365005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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