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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Ponce in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8918S, -66.6434WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us60007h9r. Event ids that are associated: us60007h9r. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 14:51:41 / January 27, 2020 @ 2:51 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:51:41 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.6434 West, latitude 17.8918 North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gurabo, Rincón, Aguadilla. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-two, in the past 30 days eight hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 13 km SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6434° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8918° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SSW of Ponce, 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 2020-01-27 14:51:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-27 15:07:32 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 168 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 0.089 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 210 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 us60007h9r Id of event.
Event Code 60007h9r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007h9r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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