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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 2 km NW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 15, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.008S, -66.7339WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.63 km (17 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000bfag. Unique identifier: us6000bfag. Exact location of event, depth 27.63 km, -66.7339° West, 18.008° North. The temblor was reported at 19:54:18 / 7:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/08/20 / 2020-08-15 19:54:18 / August 15, 2020 @ 7:54 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown. Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 2 km NW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7339° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.008° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NW 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 2020-08-15 19:54:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-15 20:09:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 158 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 0.034 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us6000bfag Id of event.
Event Code 6000bfag An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bfag, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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