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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 27 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7283S, -66.8439WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.86 km (9 miles). Event id: us700071e4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700071e4. The temblor was picked up at 20:48:06 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 00:48:06 / January 17, 2020 @ 12:48 am. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8439° West, 17.7283° North, depth 14.86 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aguada, Morovis, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 27 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8439° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7283° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km 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 2020-01-17 00:48:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-17 01:05:11 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 168 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 0.291 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 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 us700071e4 Id of event.
Event Code 700071e4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700071e4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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