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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8466S, -66.8151WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us70006tpc. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006tpc. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:49:40 / 12:49 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/20 / 2020-01-02 16:49:40 / January 2, 2020 @ 4:49 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8151 West, latitude 17.8466 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Campanilla, Aguas Buenas, Patillas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 28 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8151° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8466° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SE of Guanica, 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 2020-01-02 16:49:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-02 22:02:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 234 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 0.278 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 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 us70006tpc Id of event.
Event Code 70006tpc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006tpc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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