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Minor earthquake, 3.65 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9268S, -66.7016WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.65 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 11:27:21 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.7016 West, latitude 17.9268 North, depth = 6 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us700098ty, pr2020123017. Unique identifier: pr2020123017. Global time and date of event 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 15:27:21 / May 2, 2020 @ 3:27 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gurabo, Cataño, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and four and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.65 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9268° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km 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 15:27:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-02 17:39:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.412 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 208 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1502 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 pr2020123017 Id of event.
Event Code 2020123017 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700098ty,pr2020123017, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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