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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.002S, -66.742WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -66.742° West, 18.002° North, depth 12 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/06/20 / 2020-06-05 15:40:48 / June 5, 2020 @ 3:40 pm. The 2.84-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:40:48 / 3:40 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020157009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020157009. The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Patillas, Bayamón, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 2 km WNW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.742° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km WNW 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 2020-06-05 15:40:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-05 16:02:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 124 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 pr2020157009 Id of event.
Event Code 2020157009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020157009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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