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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near La Parguera in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9183S, -67.0113WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 02:53:19 / January 14, 2020 @ 2:53 am. Exact location of event, longitude -67.0113 West, latitude 17.9183 North, depth = 7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020014031. Unique identifier: pr2020014031. The temblor was reported at 22:53:19 / 10:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salinas, Orocovis, Ciales (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and seventy-four, in the last 10 days four hundred and seventy-five, in the past 30 days five hundred and fourty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. 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: 7 km SSE of La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0113° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9183° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km SSE 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 2020-01-14 02:53:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-17 15:54:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 129 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0608 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 249 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 pr2020014031 Id of event.
Event Code 2020014031 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020014031, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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