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Minor earthquake: M3.27 quake has struck near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8863S, -66.7733WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/01/20 / 2020-01-22 23:58:24 / January 22, 2020 @ 11:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7733 West, latitude 17.8863 North, depth = 12 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2020022011. Event ids that are associated: us60007dcf, pr2020022011. The 3.27-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:58:24 / 7:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguas Buenas, Patillas, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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: 18 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.27 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7733° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8863° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SSE of Indios, 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 2020-01-22 23:58:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 00:46:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 165 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 ,us,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 0.1382 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 222 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 pr2020022011 Id of event.
Event Code 2020022011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007dcf,pr2020022011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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