Earthquake breaking news, Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 5, 2020 0 Comments

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us70008pbj. Event ids that are associated: us70008pbj. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/04/20 / 2020-04-05 16:25:21 / April 5, 2020 @ 4:25 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8276 West, latitude 17.9768 North, depth = 11.62 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.62 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:25:21 / 12:25 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaynabo, Levittown, Patillas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 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 thirteen, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel anything?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 2 km SSW of Indios, Puerto Rico.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8276° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9768° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.62 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km 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	2020-04-05 16:25:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-05 16:42:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.237	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	0.065	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.81 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us70008pbj	Id of event.
Event Code	70008pbj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008pbj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information