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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2532S, -67.4148WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Monday. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:01:56 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.4148 West, latitude 18.2532 North, depth = 131 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 131 km (81 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/07/16 / 2016-07-04 21:01:56 / July 4, 2016 @ 9:01 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16186008. Unique identifier: pr16186008.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arecibo, Peñuelas, Utuado (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-one 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: 19 km WSW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4148° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2532° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km WSW of Rincon, 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 2016-07-04 21:01:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-05 00:57:46 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 138 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.32069856 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 280.8 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 pr16186008 Id of event.
Event Code 16186008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16186008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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