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Minor earthquake, 3.21 mag was detected near Jobos in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on October 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.4301S, -66.1183WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Jobos in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2020304003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020304003. Exact location of event, depth 22 km, -66.1183° West, 17.4301° North. The temblor was detected at 14:01:32 / 2:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 22 km (14 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/20 / 2020-10-30 14:01:32 / October 30, 2020 @ 2:01 pm UTC/GMT.

Close 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 Coamo, Cayey, Yabucoa. Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cayey (c. 18 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Coamo (c. 11 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arroyo (c. 7 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Isabel (c. 7 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 58 km S of Jobos, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1183° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4301° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km S of Jobos, 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 2020-10-30 14:01:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-30 14:28:06 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 159 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5354 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 283 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 pr2020304003 Id of event.
Event Code 2020304003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020304003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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