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Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag has occurred near Ponce in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9188S, -66.5868WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/05/20 / 2020-05-29 15:17:28 / May 29, 2020 @ 3:17 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 15:17:28 / 3:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.5868° West, latitude 17.9188° North, depth = 6 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020150016. Unique identifier: pr2020150016.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela, San Juan, Juncos (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days fifty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days two thousand and eighty-eight 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.

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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. 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: 10 km SSE of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5868° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9188° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km SSE of Ponce, 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 2020-05-29 15:17:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-29 15:32:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 153 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1255 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 pr2020150016 Id of event.
Event Code 2020150016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020150016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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