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Minor earthquake: M3.07 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9538S, -66.7218WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 11:43:25 / 11:43 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020042014. Event ids that are associated: pr2020042014. The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Global time and date of event 11/02/20 / 2020-02-11 15:43:25 / February 11, 2020 @ 3:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7218 West, latitude 17.9538 North, depth = 11 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaynabo, Caguas, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-nine, in the past 30 days seven hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and seventy-two 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 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7218° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9538° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km S of Tallaboa, 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 2020-02-11 15:43:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-11 16:10:07 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 145 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1459 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 pr2020042014 Id of event.
Event Code 2020042014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020042014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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