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Moderate earthquake 5.6 mag, 8 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9223S, -66.7308WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: us70006vm9. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006vm9. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:34:02 / 4:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 08:34:02 / January 7, 2020 @ 8:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7308 West, latitude 17.9223 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naguabo, Río Grande, Punta Santiago (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7308° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9223° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km 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 2020-01-07 08:34:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-07 10:13:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 439 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.952 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 799 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 0.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006vm9 Id of event.
Event Code 70006vm9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006vm9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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