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Minor earthquake: M2.93 quake has struck near Guayanilla in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.005S, -66.7891WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 22:59:44 / 10:59 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 02:59:44 / January 27, 2020 @ 2:59 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 17 km (11 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7891 West, latitude 18.005 North, depth = 17 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020027019. Event ids that are associated: pr2020027019.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguas Buenas, Arroyo, Ingenio. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days three hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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: 1 km S of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7891° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km S 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 2020-01-27 02:59:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 06:13:33 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 132 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 0.0949 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 171 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 pr2020027019 Id of event.
Event Code 2020027019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020027019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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