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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 9 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8917S, -66.8894WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us70006td8. Event ids that are associated: us70006td8. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/01/20 / 2020-01-02 00:12:01 / January 2, 2020 @ 12:12 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8894° West, 17.8917° North, depth 11.19 km. The temblor was reported at 20:12:01 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.19 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cidra, Guayama, Vega Alta (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 five, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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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: 9 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8894° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8917° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.19 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 2020-01-02 00:12:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-02 00:38:13 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 4.8 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 190 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 0.238 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us70006td8 Id of event.
Event Code 70006td8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006td8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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