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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 4 km E of Rafael Gonzalez, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on July 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4318S, -66.7485WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Rafael Gonzalez in Puerto Rico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/07/16 / 2016-07-13 02:17:42 / July 13, 2016 @ 2:17 am. Id of earthquake: pr16195000. Event ids that are associated: pr16195000. Exact location of event, depth 121 km, -66.7485° West, 18.4318° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 121 km (75 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:17:42 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trujillo Alto, Caguas, Cayey (min 5000 pop).

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 five, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-five 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 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: 4 km E of Rafael Gonzalez, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7485° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 121 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of Rafael Gonzalez, 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 2016-07-13 02:17:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-13 02:43:33 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.08354332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158.4 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 pr16195000 Id of event.
Event Code 16195000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16195000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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