Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Aguada in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.4587S, -67.2733WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Aguada in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -67.2733° West, latitude 18.4587° North, depth = 115 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/16 / 2016-07-29 15:10:33 / July 29, 2016 @ 3:10 pm UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:10:33 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 115 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr16211005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16211005.

The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barceloneta, Jayuya, Florida (min 5000 pop). 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

Did you feel the quake?

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 NW of Aguada, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2733° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4587° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 115 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NW of Aguada, 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 2016-07-29 15:10:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-29 16:22:06 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.15451023 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194.4 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 pr16211005 Id of event.
Event Code 16211005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16211005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply