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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Puerto Rico region

Posted by admin on July 30, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9101S, -67.6465WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 23:04:15 / July 29, 2015 @ 11:04 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:04:15 / 11:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.6465° West, latitude 17.9101° North, depth = 31 km. Id of earthquake: pr15210021. Event ids that are associated: pr15210021. The epicenter was at a depth of 31 km (19 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Sabana Grande (c. 9 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Maricao, Sabana Grande, Aguada (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: Puerto Rico region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.6465° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9101° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Puerto Rico region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-29 23:04:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-30 01:28:23 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 129 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 0.49766667 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291.6 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 pr15210021 Id of event.
Event Code 15210021 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15210021, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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