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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.887S, -66.8698WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 01:58:44 / 1:58 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us700070qv, pr2020016004. Unique identifier: pr2020016004. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 05:58:44 / January 16, 2020 @ 5:58 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8698 West, latitude 17.887 North, depth = 14 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Vega Alta, Cidra (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-two, in the past 30 days four hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 9 km SE of Guanica, 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 -66.8698° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.887° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km 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 2020-01-16 05:58:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 06:29:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 178 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0886 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 239 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 pr2020016004 Id of event.
Event Code 2020016004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700070qv,pr2020016004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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