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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8675S, -66.8193WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 10:32:18 / January 6, 2020 @ 10:32 am. The temblor was detected at 06:32:18 / 6:32 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: pr2020006006. Ids that are associated to the event: pt20006001, us70006v7k, pr2020006006. Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -66.8193° West, 17.8675° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Río Grande, Punta Santiago, Loíza (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 101 km (62 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 13 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8193° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8675° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSE of Indios, 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 2020-01-06 10:32:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-06 11:35:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 538 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.07 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 856 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 ,pt,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1231 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 227 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020006006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020006006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20006001,us70006v7k,pr2020006006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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