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Minor earthquake, 2.96 mag strikes near Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0625S, -66.7406WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Santo Domingo in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -66.7406° West, latitude 18.0625° North, depth = 17 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020142014. Event ids that are associated: pr2020142014. The temblor was reported at 16:22:06 / 4:22 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 20:22:06 / May 21, 2020 @ 8:22 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, Patillas, Caguas.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fifty-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 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: 1 km E of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7406° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0625° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km E of Santo Domingo, 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 2020-05-21 20:22:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-21 21:00:10 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 135 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 pr2020142014 Id of event.
Event Code 2020142014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020142014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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