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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9826S, -66.7716WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/01/20 / 2020-01-18 04:11:50 / January 18, 2020 @ 4:11 am. Exact location, longitude -66.7716° West, latitude 17.9826° North, depth = 6 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2020018026. Event ids that are associated: pr2020018026. The temblor was reported at 00:11:50 / 12:11 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ingenio, Aguas Buenas, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 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 fifty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days seven hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km S of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7716° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9826° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km S of Magas Arriba, 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 2020-01-18 04:11:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 04:16:27 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 129 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1079 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 pr2020018026 Id of event.
Event Code 2020018026 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020018026, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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