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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Levittown in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.447S, -66.166WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Levittown in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -66.166 West, latitude 18.447 North, depth = 82 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 02:16:39 / March 12, 2016 @ 2:16 am UTC/GMT. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:16:39 / 10:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16072000. Id of event: pr16072000.

Event epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lares, Peñuelas, Camuy (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 1 km ESE of Levittown, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.166° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.447° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km ESE of Levittown, 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 2016-03-12 02:16:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-12 03:51:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.15810349 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205.2 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 pr16072000 Id of event.
Event Code 16072000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16072000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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