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Minor earthquake: M2.82 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 27, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0201S, -66.7318WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 09:00:11 / January 24, 2020 @ 9:00 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2020024016. Event ids that are associated: pr2020024016. The temblor was picked up at 05:00:11 / 5:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.7318° West, 18.0201° North, depth 15 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15 km (9 miles).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Patillas, Guaynabo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty, in the last 10 days four hundred and four, in the past 30 days eight hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days eight hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 3 km NNW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7318° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0201° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km NNW of Tallaboa, 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 2020-01-24 09:00:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-27 14:57:08 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 122 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 174 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 pr2020024016 Id of event.
Event Code 2020024016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020024016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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