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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9358S, -66.9424WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.7 km (9 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009c1s. Id of event: us70009c1s. Exact location of event, depth 14.7 km, -66.9424° West, 17.9358° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/05/20 / 2020-05-07 23:36:05 / May 7, 2020 @ 11:36 pm. The temblor was reported at 19:36:05 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vega Alta, Comerío, Vega Baja (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km SW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9424° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9358° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SW of Guanica, 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 2020-05-07 23:36:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-07 23:47:21 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 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.726 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 178 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 0.102 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us70009c1s Id of event.
Event Code 70009c1s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009c1s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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