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Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag has occurred near Guánica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.934S, -66.9186WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9186 West, latitude 17.934 North, depth = 12 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000adnu, pr2020180008. Id of event: pr2020180008. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/06/20 / 2020-06-28 11:49:22 / June 28, 2020 @ 11:49 am. The temblor was picked up at 11:49:22 / 11:49 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Corozal, Aibonito, Manatí (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days sixty, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 4 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9186° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.934° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km SSW of Guánica, 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 2020-06-28 11:49:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-28 12:41:18 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 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.767 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 134 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 pr2020180008 Id of event.
Event Code 2020180008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000adnu,pr2020180008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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