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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Canico in Portugal

Posted by admin on March 15, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.2389S, -16.732WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Canico in Portugal. Id of earthquake: us60008g09. Event ids that are associated: us60008g09. Exact location of earthquake, -16.732° West, 32.2389° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:08:17 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/03/20 / 2020-03-15 10:08:17 / March 15, 2020 @ 10:08 am.

Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Funchal (c. 100 800 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Câmara de Lobos (c. 32 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Machico (c. 12 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Caniço (c. 12 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Santana (c. 8 800 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Camacha (c. 8 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was São Vicente, Santana, Ribeira Brava (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Portugal (c. 10 676 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km SSE of Canico, Portugal. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -16.732° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.2389° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km SSE of Canico, Portugal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-15 10:08:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-15 10:30:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -60 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 222 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 0.702 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us60008g09 Id of event.
Event Code 60008g09 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008g09, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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