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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9251S, -66.8371WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006yc5, pr2020011009. Unique identifier: pr2020011009. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:14:53 / 7:14 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8371 West, latitude 17.9251 North, depth = 7 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 11:14:53 / January 11, 2020 @ 11:14 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arroyo, Pájaros, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 11 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8371° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9251° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of Indios, 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 2020-01-11 11:14:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-11 11:55:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 191 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 ,us,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 0.2118 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 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 pr2020011009 Id of event.
Event Code 2020011009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006yc5,pr2020011009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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