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Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.867S, -66.818WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -66.818 West, latitude 17.867 North, depth = 5 km. The 6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:54:44 / 8:54 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 12:54:44 / January 11, 2020 @ 12:54 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: pt20011058. Ids that are associated to the event: pt20011058.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naguabo, Río Grande, Punta Santiago (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-eight, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.818° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.867° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 12:54:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-11 13:02:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 33 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.6 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 572 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pt20011058 Id of event.
Event Code 20011058 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20011058, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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