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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9444S, -66.7415WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Friday. The temblor was detected at 03:26:59 / 3:26 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.27 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/20 / 2020-08-07 03:26:59 / August 7, 2020 @ 3:26 am. Exact location of event, depth 8.27 km, -66.7415° West, 17.9444° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000baev. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20220050, us6000baev.

Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Loíza, San Isidro, Canovanas. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and twenty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7415° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9444° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km SSW of Tallaboa, 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 2020-08-07 03:26:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-07 03:46:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 140 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.87 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 467 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 ,pt,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 0.073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000baev Id of event.
Event Code 6000baev An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20220050,us6000baev, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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