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Minor earthquake: M2.87 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.979S, -66.7101WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 09:36:17 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020149014. Unique identifier: pr2020149014. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7101 West, latitude 17.979 North, depth = 9 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/20 / 2020-05-28 13:36:17 / May 28, 2020 @ 1:36 pm.

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days two thousand and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 1 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7101° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.979° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSE of Tallaboa, 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 2020-05-28 13:36:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-28 13:46:55 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 127 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 pr2020149014 Id of event.
Event Code 2020149014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020149014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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