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Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9346S, -66.8WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 04:07:34 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020146005. Unique identifier: pr2020146005. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8 West, latitude 17.9346 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/05/20 / 2020-05-25 08:07:34 / May 25, 2020 @ 8:07 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Campanilla, Toa Baja, Arroyo (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.17 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9346° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSE of Indios, 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 2020-05-25 08:07:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-25 08:44:39 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 155 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.089 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020146005 Id of event.
Event Code 2020146005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020146005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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