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Minor earthquake, 2.92 mag has occurred near Guayanilla in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.017S, -66.7981WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 00:19:26 / January 26, 2020 @ 12:19 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 20:19:26 / 8:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 16 km, -66.7981° West, 18.017° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). Unique identifier: pr2020026010. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020026010.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arroyo, Aguas Buenas, Ingenio. The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-four, in the last 10 days three hundred and fifty-nine, in the past 30 days eight hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days nine hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 0 km WSW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7981° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.017° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km WSW of Guayanilla, 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 00:19:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-28 08:56:15 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 131 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0913 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 pr2020026010 Id of event.
Event Code 2020026010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020026010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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