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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Pajaros in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 24, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.356S, -66.2088WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Pajaros in Puerto Rico on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 112 km (70 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:17:30 / 5:17 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr17023009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr17023009. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/01/17 / 2017-01-23 21:17:30 / January 23, 2017 @ 9:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.2088 West, latitude 18.356 North, depth = 112 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quebradillas, Yauco, Guayanilla. The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 1 km SSE of Pajaros, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.2088° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SSE of Pajaros, 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 2017-01-23 21:17:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-24 00:01:11 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 148 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.34495307 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 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 pr17023009 Id of event.
Event Code 17023009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17023009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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