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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 1 km ENE of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0233S, -66.7789WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: usa0006bqt. Event ids that are associated: usa0006bqt. Exact location of event, longitude -66.7789 West, latitude 18.0233 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:40:38 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 16:40:38 / January 7, 2020 @ 4:40 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaynabo, Levittown, Bayamón (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine hundred and thirty, in the last 10 days one thousand and thirteen, in the past 30 days one thousand and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 1 km ENE of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7789° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0233° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km ENE of Guayanilla, 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 2020-01-07 16:40:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-02 18:08:02 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 158 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 0.165 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 usa0006bqt Id of event.
Event Code a0006bqt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usa0006bqt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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