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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8242S, -66.7948WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7948 West, latitude 17.8242 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006ye2. Id of event: us70006ye2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:56:22 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 12:56:22 / January 11, 2020 @ 12:56 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Piedras, Juncos, Trujillo Alto (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 102 km (63 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7948° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8242° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km 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 12:56:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-11 15:06:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 108 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7 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 492 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 0.17 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006ye2 Id of event.
Event Code 70006ye2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006ye2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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