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Minor earthquake 3.14 mag, 5 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9595S, -66.7583WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.14 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The 3.14-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:39:59 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/11/20 / 2020-11-11 21:39:59 / November 11, 2020 @ 9:39 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020316006. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000cdjq, pr2020316006. Exact location of earthquake, -66.7583° West, 17.9595° North, depth 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Sabana Seca, Patillas.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km SW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7583° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9595° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SW 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 2020-11-11 21:39:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-11 22:04:14 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 152 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 ,us,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 0.1219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020316006 Id of event.
Event Code 2020316006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cdjq,pr2020316006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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