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Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9188S, -66.8295WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:06:02 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020078032, us70008bun. Id of event: pr2020078032. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8295 West, latitude 17.9188 North, depth = 9 km. Global time and date of event 18/03/20 / 2020-03-18 21:06:02 / March 18, 2020 @ 9:06 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cidra, Guayama, Vega Alta (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 25 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 5 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSW of Indios, 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 2020-03-18 21:06:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-18 22:39:58 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 128 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0751 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230 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 pr2020078032 Id of event.
Event Code 2020078032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020078032,us70008bun, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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