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Minor earthquake: M3.03 quake has struck near Guánica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9475S, -66.959WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000b3uw, pr2020207000. Unique identifier: pr2020207000. The 3.03-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:40:56 / 3:40 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 25/07/20 / 2020-07-25 03:40:56 / July 25, 2020 @ 3:40 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 6 km, -66.959° West, 17.9475° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, four hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.959° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9475° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km WSW of Guánica, 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 2020-07-25 03:40:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-25 04:25:30 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 141 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 ,us,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 0.0844 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 pr2020207000 Id of event.
Event Code 2020207000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b3uw,pr2020207000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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