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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0107S, -66.8344WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Event id: us6000ahkp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ahkp. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:51:44 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8344 West, latitude 18.0107 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/06/20 / 2020-06-24 02:51:44 / June 24, 2020 @ 2:51 am.

Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8344° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0107° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NW 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 02:51:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-24 03:36:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.043 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000ahkp Id of event.
Event Code 6000ahkp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ahkp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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