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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 9 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9154S, -66.682WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.682° West, latitude 17.9154° North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us700098my. Event ids that are associated: us700098my. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 11:27:18 / May 2, 2020 @ 11:27 am. The temblor was detected at 07:27:18 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-four 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.682° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9154° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSE of Tallaboa, 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 11:27:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-02 11:57:32 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 158 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 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us700098my Id of event.
Event Code 700098my An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700098my, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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