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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 0 km SE of Yauco, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 29, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0306S, -66.8446WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Yauco in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 04:07:21 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 08:07:21 / January 11, 2020 @ 8:07 am. Event id: us60007iyt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007iyt. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8446 West, latitude 18.0306 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guayama, Campanilla, Dorado (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six hundred and twenty-eight, in the last 10 days eight hundred and twenty-nine, in the past 30 days eight hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days nine hundred and eighty-six 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 0 km SE of Yauco, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8446° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0306° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km SE of Yauco, 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 2020-01-11 08:07:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 09:48:12 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 138 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 0.064 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us60007iyt Id of event.
Event Code 60007iyt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007iyt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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