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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9235S, -67.4197WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Thursday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:39:15 / 5:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -67.4197 West, latitude 18.9235 North, depth = 7 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/08/16 / 2016-08-18 09:39:15 / August 18, 2016 @ 9:39 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr16231009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16231009. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, Quebradillas, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). 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 fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4197° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9235° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km NW of San Antonio, 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 2016-08-18 09:39:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-18 12:24:50 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.53898917 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 302.4 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 pr16231009 Id of event.
Event Code 16231009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16231009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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