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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9147S, -66.7514WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.59 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/06/20 / 2020-06-19 08:37:09 / June 19, 2020 @ 8:37 am. Exact location of earthquake, -66.7514° West, 17.9147° North, depth 12.59 km. Event id: us6000aeqc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000aeqc. The temblor was reported at 08:37:09 / 8:37 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas, Dorado (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days sixty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 9 km SSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7514° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9147° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SSW 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 2020-06-19 08:37:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-19 08:46:55 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 168 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 0.099 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us6000aeqc Id of event.
Event Code 6000aeqc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aeqc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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