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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Stella in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on November 30, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2533S, -67.3856WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -67.3856 West, latitude 18.2533 North, depth = 84 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 84 km (52 miles). Global time and date of event 29/11/17 / 2017-11-29 22:22:52 / November 29, 2017 @ 10:22 pm UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:22:52 / 6:22 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2017333002. Unique identifier: pr2017333002.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arecibo, Peñuelas, Utuado (min 5000 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 16 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3856° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2533° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WSW of Stella, 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 2017-11-29 22:22:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-30 00:18:34 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 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1611 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 153 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 pr2017333002 Id of event.
Event Code 2017333002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017333002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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