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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Brenas in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 6, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5995S, -66.358WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico on Monday. Event id: pr16341002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16341002. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:28:21 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.358° West, 18.5995° North, depth 97 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 97 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/16 / 2016-12-06 01:28:21 / December 6, 2016 @ 1:28 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arroyo, Patillas, Humacao. The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 14 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km N of Brenas, 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 2016-12-06 01:28:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 05:51:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.45095427 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 244.8 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 pr16341002 Id of event.
Event Code 16341002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16341002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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