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Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9585S, -66.9491WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. Global time and date of event 16/05/20 / 2020-05-16 21:52:42 / May 16, 2020 @ 9:52 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:52:42 / 5:52 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2020137005. Event ids that are associated: pr2020137005, us70009iej. Exact location of event, longitude -66.9491 West, latitude 17.9585 North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aibonito, Coco, Barranquitas.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and six and in the last 365 days two thousand and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km WSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9491° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9585° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WSW 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 2020-05-16 21:52:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-17 01:16:38 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 145 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0718 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 192 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 pr2020137005 Id of event.
Event Code 2020137005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020137005,us70009iej, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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