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Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag has occurred near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9885S, -66.7223WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2020025001. Event ids that are associated: pr2020025001, us60007feu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 04:26:09 / January 25, 2020 @ 4:26 am. Exact location, longitude -66.7223° West, latitude 17.9885° North, depth = 4 km. The 3.16-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:26:09 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas. The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and ten, in the past 30 days seven hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days eight hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 0 km WNW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7223° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km WNW of Tallaboa, 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 2020-01-25 04:26:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-25 04:51:19 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 154 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1575 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 186 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 pr2020025001 Id of event.
Event Code 2020025001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020025001,us60007feu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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