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Minor earthquake, 3.93 mag has occurred near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9666S, -66.8393WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The 3.93-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:19:08 / 1:19 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 17:19:08 / January 26, 2020 @ 5:19 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -66.8393° West, 17.9666° North, depth 9 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007gkd, pr2020026006. Unique identifier: pr2020026006. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 87 km (54 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaynabo, Levittown, Patillas.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-nine, in the past 30 days eight hundred and in the last 365 days eight hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 24 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8393° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km 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 2020-01-26 17:19:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 18:05:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 21 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.152 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 247 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0408 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 pr2020026006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020026006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007gkd,pr2020026006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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