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Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag was detected near Ponce in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9001S, -66.646WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2020026047. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020026047. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 20:23:23 / January 26, 2020 @ 8:23 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -66.646° West, 17.9001° North, depth 3 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 16:23:23 / 4:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levittown, Aguada, Isabela. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.646° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9001° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SSW of Ponce, 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 2020-01-26 20:23:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 03:50:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 137 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1481 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 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 pr2020026047 Id of event.
Event Code 2020026047 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020026047, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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