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Minor earthquake, 3.68 mag strikes near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.91S, -66.8473WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 09:53:00 / 9:53 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 13:53:00 / January 16, 2020 @ 1:53 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2020016008. Event ids that are associated: us700070xy, pr2020016008. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8473 West, latitude 17.91 North, depth = 11 km.

The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dorado, Campanilla, Toa Baja. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-four, in the past 30 days four hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.68 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8473° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.91° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SSE 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 13:53:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 14:17:00 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 209 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 0.0725 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 pr2020016008 Id of event.
Event Code 2020016008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700070xy,pr2020016008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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