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Minor earthquake, 2.99 mag has occurred near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8636S, -66.8461WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.99 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 07:13:53 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020017056. Unique identifier: pr2020017056. Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -66.8461° West, 17.8636° North. Global time and date of event 17/01/20 / 2020-01-17 11:13:53 / January 17, 2020 @ 11:13 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guayama, Corozal, Cayey. Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 ninety-four, in the last 10 days five hundred and seventy-five, in the past 30 days six hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.99 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8461° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8636° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSE 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 2020-01-17 11:13:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-22 13:10:55 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 138 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1163 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020017056 Id of event.
Event Code 2020017056 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020017056, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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