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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Ponce in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 10, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9293S, -66.6445WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:57:27 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/01/20 / 2020-01-10 01:57:27 / January 10, 2020 @ 1:57 am. Unique identifier: pr2020010008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020010008. The epicenter was at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -66.6445° West, 17.9293° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Aguada, Levittown (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days two hundred and eleven, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6445° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9293° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSW 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 2020-01-10 01:57:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-10 14:37:32 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 127 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1198 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 pr2020010008 Id of event.
Event Code 2020010008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020010008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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