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Minor earthquake 3.41 mag, 3 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.938S, -66.839WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2020096036. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008pep, pr2020096036. The temblor was picked up at 14:52:44 / 2:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.839 West, latitude 17.938 North, depth = 12 km. Global time and date of event 05/04/20 / 2020-04-05 18:52:44 / April 5, 2020 @ 6:52 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dorado, Campanilla, Toa Baja (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days eighty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 3 km WSW of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.41 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.839° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.938° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km WSW of Indios, 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 2020-04-05 18:52:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-05 19:24:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.982 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 183 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 pr2020096036 Id of event.
Event Code 2020096036 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008pep,pr2020096036, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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