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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.001S, -66.8268WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8268 West, latitude 18.001 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007glu. Id of event: us60007glu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:27:42 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 18:27:42 / January 26, 2020 @ 6:27 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pájaros, Guayama, Toa Alta. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 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 nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty, in the past 30 days eight hundred and two and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8268° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 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 2020-01-26 18:27:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 19:32:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 0.055 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 163 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 us60007glu Id of event.
Event Code 60007glu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007glu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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