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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Canico in Portugal

Posted by admin on March 7, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 32.39S, -16.6994WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Canico in Portugal. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/03/20 / 2020-03-07 20:58:03 / March 7, 2020 @ 8:58 pm. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:58:03 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -16.6994 West, latitude 32.39 North, depth = 4.71 km. Event id: us60008brw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60008brw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.71 km (3 miles).

Close country/countries, Portugal (c. 10 676 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Camacha, São Vicente, Santana. Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (20 miles) from Funchal (c. 100 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Câmara de Lobos (c. 32 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Machico (c. 12 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Caniço (c. 12 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Santana (c. 8 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Camacha (c. 8 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Camacha (c. 8 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 30 km SSE of Canico, Portugal.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -16.6994° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 32.39° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km SSE of Canico, Portugal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-03-07 20:58:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-07 21:18:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 0 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.7 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 418 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 0.602 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60008brw Id of event.
Event Code 60008brw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008brw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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