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Minor earthquake, 3.39 mag has occurred near Ponce in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9173S, -66.5803WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2020163012. Event ids that are associated: us6000a9ra, pr2020163012. Exact location of event, longitude -66.5803 West, latitude 17.9173 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.39-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:51:26 / 6:51 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/06/20 / 2020-06-11 06:51:26 / June 11, 2020 @ 6:51 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Piedras, Isabela, San Juan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 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: 11 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.39 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5803° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9173° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km SSE of Ponce, 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 2020-06-11 06:51:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-11 08:13:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 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 177 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 ,us,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 0.1281 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 pr2020163012 Id of event.
Event Code 2020163012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a9ra,pr2020163012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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