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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 4, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9154S, -66.7151WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us700099jz. Event ids that are associated: us700099jz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7151 West, latitude 17.9154 North, depth = 12.42 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:02:22 / 10:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.42 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/05/20 / 2020-05-04 02:02:22 / May 4, 2020 @ 2:02 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dorado, Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eighty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 8 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7151° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9154° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S of Tallaboa, 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 2020-05-04 02:02:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-04 02:20:57 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 121 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 0.075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us700099jz Id of event.
Event Code 700099jz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700099jz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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