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Minor earthquake: M3.44 quake has struck near Esperanza in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9666S, -65.4926WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico. The 3.44-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:50:36 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.4926° West, latitude 17.9666° North, depth = 19 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/12/20 / 2020-12-16 09:50:36 / December 16, 2020 @ 9:50 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000crik, pr2020351007. Id of event: pr2020351007. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19 km (12 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (42 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Croix, Comerío, Coco.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 14 km S of Esperanza, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4926° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km S of Esperanza, 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 2020-12-16 09:50:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-16 10:36:12 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 2.38 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 182 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3971 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 332 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 pr2020351007 Id of event.
Event Code 2020351007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000crik,pr2020351007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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