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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.933S, -66.8936WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 19:09:00 / January 7, 2020 @ 7:09 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8936 West, latitude 17.933 North, depth = 4 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:09:00 / 3:09 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2020007044. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020007044.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Baja, Comerío, Corozal (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 4 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8936° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.933° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km 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 2020-01-07 19:09:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-07 19:35:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 0 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 135 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.155 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 pr2020007044 Id of event.
Event Code 2020007044 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020007044, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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