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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 15, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9515S, -66.9552WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/01/20 / 2020-01-15 15:36:24 / January 15, 2020 @ 3:36 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20015003, us700070a1. Id of event: us700070a1. The temblor was picked up at 11:36:24 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.9552° West, latitude 17.9515° North, depth = 5.8 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.8 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan, Cataño, Caguas (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days three hundred and fifty-four, in the past 30 days four hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km WSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9552° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9515° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WSW 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 2020-01-15 15:36:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-15 15:52:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 143 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 ,pt,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 0.076 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us700070a1 Id of event.
Event Code 700070a1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20015003,us700070a1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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