Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 17, 2020 0 Comments

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2020017006. Event ids that are associated: us700071ke, pr2020017006. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8573 West, latitude 17.9435 North, depth = 9 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 09:54:59 / January 17, 2020 @ 9:54 am. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:54:59 / 5:54 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pájaros, San Antonio, Toa Alta (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days four hundred and seven, in the past 30 days five hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Questions or comments?

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. 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: 12 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8573° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9435° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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 09:54:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-17 10:14:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	178	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	0.0384	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	201	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	pr2020017006	Id of event.
Event Code	2020017006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us700071ke,pr2020017006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information