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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 72 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9459S, -67.5965WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -67.5965 West, latitude 18.9459 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/02/20 / 2020-02-07 01:07:44 / February 7, 2020 @ 1:07 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:07:44 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70007kkl. Unique identifier: us70007kkl.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moca, Isabela, Rincón. Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighty-three, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 72 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.5965° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9459° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km NW of San Antonio, 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 2020-02-07 01:07:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-07 01:19:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 189 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 0.661 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us70007kkl Id of event.
Event Code 70007kkl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007kkl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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