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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9331S, -67.0082WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 09:18:11 / January 17, 2020 @ 9:18 am. Id of earthquake: us700071k3. Event ids that are associated: us700071k3. The temblor was detected at 05:18:11 / 5:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.0082° West, 17.9331° North, depth 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (26 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 fifty-one, in the last 10 days four hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days six hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 6 km SE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0082° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9331° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SE of La Parguera, 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 09:18:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-17 09:58:55 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 0.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 225 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 us700071k3 Id of event.
Event Code 700071k3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700071k3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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