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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0127S, -66.7811WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported Puerto Rico kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7811 West, latitude 18.0127 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us60007jru. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007jru. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:13:51 / 5:13 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 17:13:51 / January 7, 2020 @ 5:13 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaynabo, Levittown, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 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 eight hundred and five, in the last 10 days eight hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days nine hundred and two and in the last 365 days nine hundred and seventy-five 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7811° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0127° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 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 2020-01-07 17:13:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-30 04:29:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 148 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 0.169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 us60007jru Id of event.
Event Code 60007jru An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007jru, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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