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Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Ponce in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9365S, -66.632WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/05/20 / 2020-05-19 11:06:57 / May 19, 2020 @ 11:06 am. The temblor was reported at 07:06:57 / 7:06 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.632° West, 17.9365° North, depth 7 km. Event id: pr2020140001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020140001. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rincón, Gurabo, Cataño (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days two thousand and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 8 km SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.24 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.632° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9365° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSW 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 2020-05-19 11:06:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-19 11:44:02 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 162 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1094 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 pr2020140001 Id of event.
Event Code 2020140001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020140001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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