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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Penuelas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.046S, -66.7305WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Penuelas in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020016006, us700070sf. Unique identifier: pr2020016006. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7305 West, latitude 18.046 North, depth = 7 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 08:41:24 / January 16, 2020 @ 8:41 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 04:41:24 / 4:41 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, Patillas, Caguas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-six, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-six, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 2 km S of Penuelas, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7305° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.046° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km S of Penuelas, 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 08:41:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 09:14:32 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 158 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 ,pr,us, 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 0.1243 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 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 pr2020016006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020016006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020016006,us700070sf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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