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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 12, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8849S, -66.7117WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 17:21:48 / 5:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.7117° West, latitude 17.8849° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/01/20 / 2020-01-08 21:21:48 / January 8, 2020 @ 9:21 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006yma. Unique identifier: us70006yma.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaynabo, Sabana Seca, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

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

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7117° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8849° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km S of Tallaboa, 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 2020-01-08 21:21:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-12 05:16:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 179 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 0.186 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006yma Id of event.
Event Code 70006yma An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006yma, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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