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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 17, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7879S, -67.2119WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/08/20 / 2020-08-17 08:24:46 / August 17, 2020 @ 8:24 am. Id of earthquake: us6000bfv1. Event ids that are associated: us6000bfv1. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:24:46 / 8:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.2119° West, 17.7879° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Utuado, Aguadilla, Moca (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 20 km S of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2119° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7879° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km S of Pole Ojea, 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 2020-08-17 08:24:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-17 09:24:56 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 121 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 0.238 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us6000bfv1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000bfv1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bfv1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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