Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Penuelas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 21, 2020 0 Comments

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Penuelas in Puerto Rico on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us60007bti. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007bti. Global time and date of event 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 02:17:25 / January 21, 2020 @ 2:17 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7315 West, latitude 18.0817 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 22:17:25 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gurabo, San Lorenzo, Trujillo Alto. Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

Did you feel anything?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km NNW of Penuelas, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.7315° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0817° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km NNW 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	2020-01-21 02:17:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-21 02:39:29	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	222	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	0.026	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	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	us60007bti	Id of event.
Event Code	60007bti	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007bti,	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, 3.8 mag has occurred near Penuelas in Puerto Rico

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information