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Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag strikes near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 10, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9328S, -66.8546WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8546° West, 17.9328° North. Global time and date of event 10/01/20 / 2020-01-10 13:54:28 / January 10, 2020 @ 1:54 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020010011. Id of event: pr2020010011. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 09:54:28 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio, Toa Alta, Guayama. Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 6 km SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8546° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SE of Maria Antonia, 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 13:54:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-10 14:14:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 166 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0489 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 pr2020010011 Id of event.
Event Code 2020010011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020010011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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