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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9436S, -66.7193WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 18:16:58 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -66.7193° West, 17.9436° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009917, pr2020123027. Id of event: pr2020123027. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 22:16:58 / May 2, 2020 @ 10:16 pm.

Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Guaynabo, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, in the last 10 days seventy-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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 S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7193° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9436° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km S 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 22:16:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-03 08:13:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 171 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 0.1504 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 188 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 pr2020123027 Id of event.
Event Code 2020123027 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009917,pr2020123027, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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