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Strong earthquake, 6.5 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9505S, -66.7358WA earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:24:27 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70006vll. Ids that are associated to the event: pt20007001, at00q3qa0q, us70006vll. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.7358° West, 17.9505° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 08:24:27 / January 7, 2020 @ 8:24 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fajardo, Ceiba, Luquillo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days eighty-six, in the past 30 days ninety-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 5 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9505° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSW 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 08:24:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-07 08:44:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 65 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 1 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 684 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,at,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 0.153 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us70006vll Id of event.
Event Code 70006vll An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20007001,at00q3qa0q,us70006vll, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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