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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 9 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 3, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8995S, -67.0048WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 20:49:45 / 8:49 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/20 / 2020-07-03 20:49:45 / July 3, 2020 @ 8:49 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.0048 West, latitude 17.8995 North, depth = 3 km. Event id: pr2020185017. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20185004, us7000ahjq, pr2020185017. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 105 km (66 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days two hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0048° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SSE of La Parguera, 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 2020-07-03 20:49:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-03 22:27:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 380 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.663 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 683 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 ,pt,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0803 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 232 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020185017 Id of event.
Event Code 2020185017 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20185004,us7000ahjq,pr2020185017, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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