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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7797S, -66.8402WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8402° West, 17.7797° North. Global time and date of event 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 12:33:26 / January 16, 2020 @ 12:33 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:33:26 / 8:33 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us700070wt. Unique identifier: us700070wt.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hatillo, Camuy, Arecibo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-seven, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 22 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8402° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7797° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km 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 12:33:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 13:07:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 138 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 0.197 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 224 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 us700070wt Id of event.
Event Code 700070wt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700070wt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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