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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Ponce in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9265S, -66.631WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 18:01:37 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 22:01:37 / May 2, 2020 @ 10:01 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.04 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70009911. Event ids that are associated: us70009911. Exact location of earthquake, -66.631° West, 17.9265° North, depth 9.04 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Rincón, Cataño, Gurabo. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 9 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9265° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km S of Ponce, 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 2020-05-02 22:01:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-02 22:43:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 149 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 0.063 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us70009911 Id of event.
Event Code 70009911 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009911, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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