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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Guánica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9613S, -66.9433WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9433 West, latitude 17.9613 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/06/20 / 2020-06-28 07:30:39 / June 28, 2020 @ 7:30 am. Event id: us7000adi8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000adi8. The temblor was detected at 07:30:39 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cayey, Naranjito, Ceiba. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty and in the last 365 days two thousand, two hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 3 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9433° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9613° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km WSW 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 07:30:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-28 07:48:14 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 3.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.04 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 200 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 0.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us7000adi8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000adi8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000adi8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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