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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Penuelas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 1, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.028S, -66.7155WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Penuelas in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 19:33:32 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.7155 West, latitude 18.028 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 23:33:32 / January 12, 2020 @ 11:33 pm. Id of earthquake: usa0006089. Event ids that are associated: usa0006089.

Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, Caguas, Patillas. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six hundred and eight, in the last 10 days nine hundred and seventeen, in the past 30 days nine hundred and seventy-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SSE of Penuelas, 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 -66.7155° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.028° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE of Penuelas, 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 2020-01-12 23:33:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-01 21:46:46 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 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 0.028 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 usa0006089 Id of event.
Event Code a0006089 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0006089, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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