Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag has occurred near Guánica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8338S, -66.9345WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: pr2021007013. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2021007013. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/01/21 / 2021-01-07 16:38:34 / January 7, 2021 @ 4:38 pm. The temblor was picked up at 16:38:34 / 4:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.9345° West, latitude 17.8338° North, depth = 10 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barceloneta, Aibonito, Morovis (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and ten and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel it?

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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 15 km S of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

Copyright © 2021 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9345° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km S 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 2021-01-07 16:38:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-07 16:56:48 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 156 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 0.1744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 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 pr2021007013 Id of event.
Event Code 2021007013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021007013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply