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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Ponce in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9319S, -66.6507WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 11:08:39 / 11:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 15:08:39 / January 27, 2020 @ 3:08 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.6507 West, latitude 17.9319 North, depth = 11.59 km. Event id: us60007ha3. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007ha3. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.59 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gurabo, Maunabo, Cataño. Close 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-two, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6507° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SSW of Ponce, 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 2020-01-27 15:08:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-27 15:14:16 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 201 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 us60007ha3 Id of event.
Event Code 60007ha3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007ha3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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