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Minor earthquake 3.45 mag, 34 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7685S, -66.8728WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 11:41:53 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.8728° West, 17.7685° North, depth 3 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 15:41:53 / February 8, 2020 @ 3:41 pm. Unique identifier: pr2020039036. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007lj6, pr2020039036.

Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barceloneta, Manatí, Isabela.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-two, in the past 30 days eight hundred and sixty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 34 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8728° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km SSE of Guanica, 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 2020-02-08 15:41:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-08 16:50:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 185 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2067 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 249 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 pr2020039036 Id of event.
Event Code 2020039036 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007lj6,pr2020039036, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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