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Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag strikes near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9891S, -66.8321WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The 3.05-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:46:49 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ahkk, pr2020176005. Unique identifier: pr2020176005. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/06/20 / 2020-06-24 02:46:49 / June 24, 2020 @ 2:46 am. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8321 West, latitude 17.9891 North, depth = 16 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toa Baja, Pájaros, Guayama (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and fifty-four 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8321° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9891° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km WSW 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 2020-06-24 02:46:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-24 04:18:28 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 143 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 pr2020176005 Id of event.
Event Code 2020176005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ahkk,pr2020176005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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