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Minor earthquake: M3.11 quake has struck near Emajagua in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 27, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8196S, -65.7105WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Emajagua in Puerto Rico on Monday. Event id: pr2020328014. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020328014. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/11/20 / 2020-11-23 01:26:23 / November 23, 2020 @ 1:26 am. Exact location, longitude -65.7105° West, latitude 17.8196° North, depth = 8 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). The 3.11-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:26:23 / 1:26 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayamón, Naranjito, Santa Isabel (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days five hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 27 km SE of Emajagua, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.7105° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8196° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km SE of Emajagua, 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 2020-11-23 01:26:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-27 22:08:04 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 149 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3509 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 314 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 pr2020328014 Id of event.
Event Code 2020328014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020328014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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