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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7405S, -66.8849WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/02/20 / 2020-02-16 08:45:49 / February 16, 2020 @ 8:45 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8849 West, latitude 17.7405 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us70007r92. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007r92. The temblor was reported at 04:45:49 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Estancias de Florida, Florida, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days five hundred and ninety-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 25 km S of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8849° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7405° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km S 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 2020-02-16 08:45:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-16 08:54:15 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 0.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 250 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 us70007r92 Id of event.
Event Code 70007r92 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007r92, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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