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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.959S, -66.7111WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Event id: us70006v8u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20006002, us70006v8u. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7111 West, latitude 17.959 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/20 / 2020-01-06 14:51:18 / January 6, 2020 @ 2:51 pm UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:51:18 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Punta Santiago, Río Grande, Loíza (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days eighty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 4 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7111° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.959° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km S of Tallaboa, 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 14:51:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-06 15:08:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 101 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.5 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 450 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 ,pt,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 0.13 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006v8u Id of event.
Event Code 70006v8u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20006002,us70006v8u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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