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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8745S, -67.0938WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -67.0938° West, 17.8745° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us6000c1l0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c1l0. Global time and date of event 26/09/20 / 2020-09-26 11:26:26 / September 26, 2020 @ 11:26 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:26:26 / 11:26 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ciales, Coamo, Florida (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km SSW of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0938° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8745° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km SSW of La Parguera, 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 2020-09-26 11:26:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-26 12:07:41 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 178 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 0.105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us6000c1l0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c1l0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c1l0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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