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Minor earthquake: M3.02 quake has struck near Fuig in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9573S, -66.9765WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Fuig in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 09:17:18 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/06/20 / 2020-06-29 09:17:18 / June 29, 2020 @ 9:17 am. Event id: pr2020181013. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ae7d, pr2020181013. Exact location of earthquake, -66.9765° West, 17.9573° North, depth 7 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days ninety-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and one and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9765° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9573° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km WSW of Fuig, 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 2020-06-29 09:17:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-30 14:44:00 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 140 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 0.0688 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 pr2020181013 Id of event.
Event Code 2020181013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ae7d,pr2020181013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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