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Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 27, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8966S, -66.9481WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2020023026. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020023026. The temblor was picked up at 04:58:43 / 4:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.9481° West, latitude 17.8966° North, depth = 8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 08:58:43 / January 23, 2020 @ 8:58 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Manatí, Barceloneta. Epicenter of the event was 38 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-three, in the last 10 days four hundred and thirty-one, in the past 30 days eight hundred and seven and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 9 km SSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9481° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8966° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSW of Guanica, 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 2020-01-23 08:58:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-27 00:50:22 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 135 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 232 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 pr2020023026 Id of event.
Event Code 2020023026 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020023026, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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