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Minor earthquake, 3.13 mag strikes near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9683S, -66.7878WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -66.7878° West, 17.9683° North, depth 9 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020030006. Event ids that are associated: pr2020030006. The temblor was reported at 06:29:24 / 6:29 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/01/20 / 2020-01-30 10:29:24 / January 30, 2020 @ 10:29 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ingenio, Aguas Buenas, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7878° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9683° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SE of Indios, 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 2020-01-30 10:29:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-30 11:18:06 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 151 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 0.0916 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 pr2020030006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020030006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020030006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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