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Minor earthquake: M2.87 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8276S, -66.8623WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.8623° West, latitude 17.8276° North, depth = 7 km. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:03:15 / 11:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7 km (4 miles). Event id: pr2020014088. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020014088. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 15:03:15 / January 14, 2020 @ 3:03 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Barceloneta, Isabela, Aguadilla. Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-nine, in the last 10 days four hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and fifty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 16 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8623° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSE 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 2020-01-14 15:03:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-18 01:54:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1485 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 pr2020014088 Id of event.
Event Code 2020014088 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020014088, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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