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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Guánica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8747S, -66.9574WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:31:10 / 9:31 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000aj2v. Unique identifier: us7000aj2v. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.01 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.9574 West, latitude 17.8747 North, depth = 11.01 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/20 / 2020-07-06 21:31:10 / July 6, 2020 @ 9:31 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aibonito, Manatí, Barceloneta. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9574° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8747° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km SSW of Guánica, 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 2020-07-06 21:31:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-06 21:44:19 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 2.592 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 178 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 0.125 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 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 us7000aj2v Id of event.
Event Code 7000aj2v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aj2v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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