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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Ponce in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8799S, -66.5882WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/05/20 / 2020-05-13 22:16:30 / May 13, 2020 @ 10:16 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.33 km (2 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:16:30 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.5882 West, latitude 17.8799 North, depth = 3.33 km. Event id: us70009fn5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009fn5.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Juncos, Cataño, Moca (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km S of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5882° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8799° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km S of Ponce, 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 2020-05-13 22:16:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-13 22:23:44 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 148 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 0.125 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70009fn5 Id of event.
Event Code 70009fn5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009fn5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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