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Minor earthquake: M2.93 quake has struck near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 28, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9863S, -65.2091WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -65.2091° West, latitude 18.9863° North, depth = 34 km. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:26:34 / 1:26 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/08/17 / 2017-08-28 05:26:34 / August 28, 2017 @ 5:26 am. Id of earthquake: pr2017240011. Event ids that are associated: pr2017240011.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Culebra.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 76 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.93 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2091° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9863° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km N of Culebra, 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 2017-08-28 05:26:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-28 08:54:57 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 132 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9531 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 286 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 pr2017240011 Id of event.
Event Code 2017240011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017240011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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