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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.988S, -66.8295WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8295° West, 17.988° North, depth 14 km. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:25:43 / 6:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 14 km (9 miles). Global time and date of event 13/07/20 / 2020-07-13 06:25:43 / July 13, 2020 @ 6:25 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020195014. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020195014.

Epicenter of the event was 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toa Alta, Guayama, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-one, in the past 30 days three hundred and ten and in the last 365 days two thousand, four hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.988° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km WSW 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 2020-07-13 06:25:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-25 02:43:58 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 127 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0513 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 pr2020195014 Id of event.
Event Code 2020195014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020195014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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