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Minor earthquake: M3.12 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9406S, -66.9346WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2020023002. Event ids that are associated: us60007dl9, pr2020023002. The temblor was detected at 02:48:23 / 2:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/20 / 2020-01-23 06:48:23 / January 23, 2020 @ 6:48 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.9346 West, latitude 17.9406 North, depth = 11 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11 km (7 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Corozal, Aibonito (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km SW of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9346° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9406° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SW 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 2020-01-23 06:48:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-23 07:22:38 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 150 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0653 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 215 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 pr2020023002 Id of event.
Event Code 2020023002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007dl9,pr2020023002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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