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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 23, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9069S, -67.1173WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000bzx0. Id of event: us6000bzx0. The temblor was detected at 01:08:27 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 13.48 km, -67.1173° West, 17.9069° North. Global time and date of event 23/09/20 / 2020-09-23 01:08:27 / September 23, 2020 @ 1:08 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.48 km (8 miles).

Close 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 Ciales, Coamo, Florida. Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (34 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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 SE of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.1173° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9069° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km SE of Pole Ojea, 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 2020-09-23 01:08:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-23 01:16:11 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 2.594 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 0.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 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 us6000bzx0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000bzx0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bzx0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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