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Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8825S, -66.8695WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2020124029. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020124029. The temblor was picked up at 23:40:49 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8695 West, latitude 17.8825 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/05/20 / 2020-05-03 03:40:49 / May 3, 2020 @ 3:40 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cayey, Comerío, Corozal (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 10 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8695° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8825° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSE of Guanica, 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 2020-05-03 03:40:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-06 22:17:18 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 140 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0931 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 215 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 pr2020124029 Id of event.
Event Code 2020124029 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020124029, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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