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Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9503S, -66.9603WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -66.9603° West, 17.9503° North, depth 7 km. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:26:30 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020016097. Id of event: pr2020016097. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/01/20 / 2020-01-16 17:26:30 / January 16, 2020 @ 5:26 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

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

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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 WSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9603° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9503° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km WSW 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 17:26:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-20 23:35:28 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 133 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, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0848 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 210 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 pr2020016097 Id of event.
Event Code 2020016097 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020016097, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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