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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8722S, -66.8519WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8519° West, 17.8722° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us70008q72. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008q72. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/04/20 / 2020-04-06 21:07:43 / April 6, 2020 @ 9:07 pm. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:07:43 / 5:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cidra, Vega Baja, Naranjito (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days ninety-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and fourty-nine 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8519° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8722° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SSE 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 2020-04-06 21:07:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-06 21:48:15 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 148 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 0.16 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 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 us70008q72 Id of event.
Event Code 70008q72 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008q72, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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