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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Ponce in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0043S, -66.5825WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:50:46 / 4:50 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us70006vmj. Event ids that are associated: us70006vmj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.5825 West, latitude 18.0043 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 08:50:46 / January 7, 2020 @ 8:50 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 3 km (2 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fajardo, Ceiba, Luquillo.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days ninety, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km ESE of Ponce, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5825° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0043° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km ESE of Ponce, 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 08:50:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-07 10:15:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 416 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 0.044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us70006vmj Id of event.
Event Code 70006vmj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006vmj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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