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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near Penuelas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0018S, -66.7323WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Penuelas in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.7323° West, latitude 18.0018° North, depth = 16 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:07:59 / 10:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 02:07:59 / January 21, 2020 @ 2:07 am. Id of earthquake: pr2020021000. Event ids that are associated: pr2020021000, us60007btb.

The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maunabo, Trujillo Alto, Gurabo (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 1 km NW of Penuelas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NW 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 02:07:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 02:41:34 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 234 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1326 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 pr2020021000 Id of event.
Event Code 2020021000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020021000,us60007btb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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