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Minor earthquake: M2.97 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9565S, -66.7151WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 09:40:54 / 9:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8 km, -66.7151° West, 17.9565° North. Unique identifier: pr2020123036. Ids that are associated to the event: us700098rx, pr2020123036. The epicenter was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 13:40:54 / May 2, 2020 @ 1:40 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days eighty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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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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. 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: 9 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7151° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9565° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 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 13:40:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-03 20:47:26 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 5.8 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 137 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 0.1389 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 pr2020123036 Id of event.
Event Code 2020123036 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700098rx,pr2020123036, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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