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Minor earthquake 3.07 mag, 77 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1638S, -66.171WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: pr2018051003. Event ids that are associated: pr2018051003. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49 km (30 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/02/18 / 2018-02-20 10:16:54 / February 20, 2018 @ 10:16 am UTC/GMT. The 3.07-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:16:54 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.171 West, latitude 19.1638 North, depth = 49 km.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Juan (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 77 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.07 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.171° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1638° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km N of San Juan, 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 2018-02-20 10:16:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-20 12:43:17 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 145 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 1.0037 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 342 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 pr2018051003 Id of event.
Event Code 2018051003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018051003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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