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

Posted by admin on May 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9122S, -66.5837WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.26 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:59:57 / 6:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.5837 West, latitude 17.9122 North, depth = 10.26 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009fnx. Id of event: us70009fnx. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/05/20 / 2020-05-13 22:59:57 / May 13, 2020 @ 10:59 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Aguada, Las Piedras (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

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

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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: 11 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5837° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9122° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSE 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 22:59:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-13 23:07:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 179 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 0.105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us70009fnx Id of event.
Event Code 70009fnx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009fnx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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