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Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9301S, -66.8795WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2020136009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020136009. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:04:31 / 2:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.8795° West, latitude 17.9301° North, depth = 15 km. Global time and date of event 15/05/20 / 2020-05-15 06:04:31 / May 15, 2020 @ 6:04 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naranjito, Cayey, Vega Baja. Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days seventy-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days two thousand and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.92 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8795° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9301° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km SSE 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 2020-05-15 06:04:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-17 08:18:29 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 131 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.045 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 pr2020136009 Id of event.
Event Code 2020136009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020136009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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