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Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag strikes near Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 1, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9458S, -66.944WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Puerto Rico kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.944° West, latitude 17.9458° North, depth = 13 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020181034. Id of event: pr2020181034. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/06/20 / 2020-06-29 04:20:34 / June 29, 2020 @ 4:20 am UTC/GMT. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:20:34 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas. Epicenter of the event was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy, in the last 10 days one hundred and nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and nine and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.83 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.944° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9458° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 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 04:20:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-01 17:34:25 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 123 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0711 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 pr2020181034 Id of event.
Event Code 2020181034 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020181034, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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