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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9342S, -66.8131WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8131° West, 17.9342° North. The temblor was reported at 11:45:43 / 11:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/20 / 2020-07-16 11:45:43 / July 16, 2020 @ 11:45 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000apkk. Id of event: us7000apkk.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Guayama, Cidra (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8131° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9342° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km S of Indios, 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 2020-07-16 11:45:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-17 08:59:56 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 121 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 0.088 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000apkk Id of event.
Event Code 7000apkk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000apkk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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