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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0701S, -65.1212WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/20 / 2020-07-17 04:37:12 / July 17, 2020 @ 4:37 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 04:37:12 / 4:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.1212° West, latitude 18.0701° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us7000aq59. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000aq59.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Humacao, Luquillo, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 32 km SE of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1212° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km SE of Culebra, 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 2020-07-17 04:37:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-17 04:52:38 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 138 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 0.695 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us7000aq59 Id of event.
Event Code 7000aq59 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aq59, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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