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Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag strikes near Playita Cortada in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 22, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9703S, -66.4346WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Playita Cortada in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 03:49:53 / 3:49 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020230005. Unique identifier: pr2020230005. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.4346 West, latitude 17.9703 North, depth = 9 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 17/08/20 / 2020-08-17 03:49:53 / August 17, 2020 @ 3:49 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quebradillas, Cabo Rojo, Punta Santiago (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days two thousand, five hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 1 km SSE of Playita Cortada, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.4346° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km SSE of Playita Cortada, 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 2020-08-17 03:49:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-22 02:58:56 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 127 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1784 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 pr2020230005 Id of event.
Event Code 2020230005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020230005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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