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

Posted by admin on February 4, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9756S, -66.9958WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/02/21 / 2021-02-04 12:55:38 / February 4, 2021 @ 12:55 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -66.9958° West, latitude 17.9756° North, depth = 8 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2021035005. Id of event: pr2021035005. The temblor was reported at 12:55:38 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km E of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9958° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9756° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km E 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 2021-02-04 12:55:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-04 13:10:08 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 173 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 pr2021035005 Id of event.
Event Code 2021035005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021035005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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