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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 9, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9628S, -66.6708WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 06:34:16 / January 9, 2020 @ 6:34 am. Event id: us70006wth. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006wth. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.6708 West, latitude 17.9628 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 02:34:16 / 2:34 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juncos, Yabucoa, Trujillo Alto. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 5 km SE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6708° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9628° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SE 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 2020-01-09 06:34:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-09 06:46:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 223 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 0.1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006wth Id of event.
Event Code 70006wth An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006wth, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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