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Minor earthquake: M3.11 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9505S, -66.72WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/05/20 / 2020-05-28 14:04:40 / May 28, 2020 @ 2:04 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2020149015. Event ids that are associated: pr2020149015. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.72° West, 17.9505° North. The 3.11-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:04:40 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 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-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days two thousand and eighty-three 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.72° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9505° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km S 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 14:04:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-28 14:24:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 149 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 0.1465 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 pr2020149015 Id of event.
Event Code 2020149015 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020149015, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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