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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 5 km WNW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0818S, -66.8036WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007g0c. Unique identifier: us60007g0c. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 22:30:08 / January 25, 2020 @ 10:30 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:30:08 / 6:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8036° West, 18.0818° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Aguas Buenas, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days three hundred and three, in the past 30 days seven hundred and eighty and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 5 km WNW of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8036° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0818° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WNW of Santo Domingo, 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 2020-01-25 22:30:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-25 23:27:14 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 121 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 0.064 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us60007g0c Id of event.
Event Code 60007g0c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007g0c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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