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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.949S, -66.8508WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8508 West, latitude 17.949 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 12:54:45 / January 11, 2020 @ 12:54 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20011058, us70006ydb, pr2020011010. Id of event: pr2020011010. The temblor was reported at 08:54:45 / 8:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 97 km (61 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Santiago, Río Grande, Loíza. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 13 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8508° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.949° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SE of Guanica, 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 12:54:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-11 14:13:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 690 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.493 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level yellow 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 1119 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 ,pt,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1945 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 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 mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020011010 Id of event.
Event Code 2020011010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20011058,us70006ydb,pr2020011010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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