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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 4, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0316S, -66.7611WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Magas Arriba in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: usa0006ce1. Id of event: usa0006ce1. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/01/20 / 2020-01-10 13:16:42 / January 10, 2020 @ 1:16 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.7611° West, latitude 18.0316° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 09:16:42 / 9:16 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Bayamón, Sabana Seca. Nearby 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven hundred and sixty-eight, in the last 10 days one thousand and ten, in the past 30 days one thousand and fifty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km NNE of Magas Arriba, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7611° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0316° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NNE of Magas Arriba, 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 2020-01-10 13:16:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-04 06:50:36 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 129 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 0.125 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 usa0006ce1 Id of event.
Event Code a0006ce1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0006ce1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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